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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
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Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#792So if I use gmail for personal email, I now have to switch to a paid plan?
gmail.com or your a personal domain name?
- gmail.com -- no.
- if you can go to https://admin.google.com and you have users -- yes
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#793Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…
Please correct me if I am wrong but you control your Google Workspace domain, am I right? There's no need to change your email address, and reading Google's documentation it seems like you can also keep your Google account: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1257646
Google has for ages already supported Google accounts for external domains whose email is not handled by Google.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#794Does anyone know if this applies to Gmail for domains as well?
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#795> Yes. If your needs have changed and you don’t want to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription, you can use the Data Export tool to export your organization’s data. This is such a half assed answer. Data Export won't export my android purchases for example.
I think you can keep your Play Store purchases. If you do not upgrade to a paid subscription, your account is just converted to a free account under an external domain: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1257646
Just make sure you set up working mail for your domain, e.g. run your own / use some other MX service.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#796I find the outrage here quite amazing. This tier has been deprecated for about 10 years already. Furthermore, the costs to upgrade are not egregious, most everyone here would not have a big problem with it. Also, it's not like one is losing one's email address -- you control the domain...
I find ~$1000 a year for just email accounts for three humans to be egregious (the non-humans are service accounts for things like NAS, printer, or TeamCity/Jenkins).
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#797> Yes. If your needs have changed and you don’t want to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription, you can use the Data Export tool to export your organization’s data. This is such a half assed answer. Data Export won't export my android purchases for example.
I don't think this affects the android account, but even if it does you can just add an alternate email address to your android account to maintain access.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#798I have four active email users in my free "legacy edition" vanity domain workspace. I am not willing to pay USD4x6x12 per year to have this continue to work. Looking around for the most affordable alternative for four active email accounts brings me to... Microsoft! Microsoft 365 Family Edition. Like a lot of salary drones I use Microsoft products at work, so I get a discount. It is sad to be paying for full Microsof…
https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
Mid-level tier is just under $60/year for 4 mailboxes, custom domain name, and, if desired, catch-all email. Reasonably good webmail, as well as SMTP/IMAP/POP3 options.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#799From what I've seen, the biggest issue here is that you cannot transfer purchased Google Play Store purchases. Even without the G Suite thing, this is a problem.
For example, I have a fairly unprofessional primary Google account that I created when I was young and dumb(er). I would like to transfer the hundreds of dollars in purchases I've made under that account to another, more appropriately named, account but it does not seem possible.
They could solve this part of the problem for the affected G Suite deprecated users as well as people in positions like me by having a way to do this.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#800> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. 10 years of a free product is not bad
Except they promised it would be free forever