• J92@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I’m not knowledgeable enough to know what the ramifications of Alphabet’s collapse would bring about. I can only imagine good things, though I know Firefox is propped up by them.

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      6 hours ago

      It wouldn’t collapse per se. It would get sold to the next biggest bidder. You’d end up with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft or Musk or something.

    • anewfox@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      well for one, how are you going to recover accounts using your gmail if gmail simply doesn’t exist anymore?

      answer: you don’t.