

After one week, that number had ballooned to more than 100,000.

Hill discovered that after only a few hours into her experiment, her various devices had tried to ping Google servers more than 15,000 times. When trying to share video journals to her colleagues at Gizmodo, Dropbox refused to let her log in because the service uses an invisible CAPTCHA - hosted by Google - to verify that real humans are trying to access it."New York Times articles won’t appear until the site has tried (and failed) to load Google Analytics, Google Pay, Google News, Google ads, and a Doubleclick tracker." Many of the sites she visited were also dependent on Google Fonts. "On Airbnb, photos won’t load," Hill says. Attempting to simply browse the web created flashbacks of the internet in the 90's.

Spotify hosts all its music on the Google Cloud.
