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I tried to sign up to track my ballot's progress at https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/ but it doesn't work with Google domains blocked.

Google invites web developers to make their sites non-functional unless Google's recaptcha spyware can view everything the user enters. I wrote the CA Secretary of State, but am not expecting any helpful response because of the usual bureaucratic inertia and hatred for the public when they ask for pesky things like privacy.

Hello,
it is wrong and possibly illegal to include www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js within the html of this page:

https://california.ballottrax.net/voter/

The reason that service from Google is "free" is because you are betraying the personal information of everyone who uses that page to Google. 3rd party javascript like that can very easily report back every keystroke and mouse movement to the 3rd party (Google in this case) and even change the text of the page without your having any visibility into that.

The page is set up specifically not to work unless Google is allowed to spy on users' personal data. That spying is the sole reason for the Google service's existence. Just think about it for a moment. Google's whole business model is to spy on everyone to create big databases of personal information to sell advertising.

Please REMOVE all "free" Google services. I will write about this on my site and get it as much publicity as I can. See:

https://patrick.net/post/1382451/2024-11-05-google-spyware-on-california-ballot