• Auli@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      It would look totally different. If Google just suddenly disappeared most ads would be gone YouTube wouldn’t be there. Gmail would be gone, and who knows what else.

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      2 months ago

      Did you, like, read the blog post? 70% of website use Google Fonts, 3 million apps and websites rely on serving Google Ads for their income, websites using Google’d reCAPTCHA to secure their login would suddenly stop working - and then there is Chrome and Chromium, YouTube, Gmail, Android, …

      Whether you like it or not, Google has spent huge amounts and efforts to entangle itself way more deeply with the web than a simple search engine