[spwa4]

You'll need something to replace it first. And so many things depend on Google's monopoly, hell, you can't pay taxes in my country without Google's monopoly.

At this point, this will simply destroy publishers' business entirely. Which won't stop some of them, but the rest will see what happens and run back to Google.

(needed for identification to fill out online taxes which is the only option left)

[frizlab]

How in the (excuse my French) f*ck is your government allowing google to login to do your taxes?? And it is the ONLY option??? I’m flabbergasted, honestly.

[spwa4]

It's not Google login, it's the Google authenticator being the only practical 2-factor option to login to government services (still annoying, but less so than trying to get one of those calculators that cost 30 euros and haven't been in stock since COVID)

[crtasm]

There's lots of apps that do TOTP, if that's what you're using it for.

[frizlab]

Absolutely. Even Apple Passwords does it now (but also a LOT of other apps, including free and open-source ones). google is definitely NOT a dependency here.