Recent searches
Search options
Bert Hubert created #googerteller, a small programme which sonifies the data collected by #Google while we browse online.
https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller
So I decided to give it a short test-drive.
It's an interesting beast. Sound-wise, it's somewhere between radio interference and a Geiger counter. It's a small programme, and uses libpcaudio, so I have no simple way of patching it into more complex workflow, beyond using the raw audio.
In terms of data behaviour, some surprises (despite all my ad- and tracker-blockers): Twitter and Meta seem to share little data with Google, which is not the case with Duck Duck Go. As Hubert proved, government and institutional websites are major culprits (I tried Spain's RENFE railway system). I was also surprised at hearing data leaking over to Google from sites such as Wikipedia and the Internet Archive, where you wouldn't expect this to happen.
Of course, the set of Google IPs can be configured sonify leaks to other service providers. Hubert himself suggests pointing googerteller to Meta.
So far, it only works on #Linux, but it's a really quick compile, so have a go at it:
@acousticmirror
I had so many windows open and this thing was in a semi-minimized popup somewhere in the jungle. It was like an hour before I found the window and was able to close it and on principle I never turn my sound all the way off...finally...