Google is now in countless ways deeply connected to the underlying structure of the web all of us use every day, many of which we don’t even consciously realize in the moment. As a matter of fact - there are so many more that even…
    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 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.

    • Quik@infosec.pubOP
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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