Google APIs (www.googleapis.com)

“Google APIs is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.” – Source

Ethical design violations

(Learn more about Ethical Design.)

Block rule

Although the content itself is allowed to load, we block cookies to make sure that it does not track people.

- trigger:
    - url-filter: www.googleapis.com
- action:
    - type: block-cookies
- trigger:
    - url-filter: googleapis.com
- action:
    - type: block-cookies

Prevalence

High: found on 1.7% of surveyed sites (117 instances observed).

Notes

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