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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by nunez »

rajup wrote: post #559
GeekyBear wrote: post #557

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month? People always complain about bait and switch tactics. Give them a way to revert to a free personal account without losing access to their files, data, and any digital goods they may have purchased and let them decide if they want to covert to a paid account or not.

You can always use Google Takeout so you don't lose access to your files.

Takeout is "fine" for core services (Gmail, Calendar, Contacts) but unusable for anything involving activities and events. Examples:

- Google Maps search history, custom maps, stars

- Google Photos albums, comments, activity

- Google Search activity

- YouTube stuff, of any kind (unless you use something like Soundiiz, but even then it's nothing like Google Play Music was where your files were YOUR FILES, and somethings aren't available on the streaming platforms)

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by YaraAllen »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #787
YaraAllen wrote: post #719

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Does this actually work? The help site ( https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?visit_id=637... ) states that: > A Voice for Google Workspace account number to any other type of Google Account, including personal accounts and accounts using a different Google Workspace domain. I am confused if my Legacy G Suite account is considered a Google Workspace account of if it's something different.

Yes it works, I moved a GV number from my Legacy G Suite account to a Gmail account.

Awesome. Thank you for the confirmation.

Sucks that it won't transfer the history but I am glad that I can at least keep the number and move it over.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by 627467 »

bmarquez wrote: post #825
etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #786

I 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 the inability to transfer my paid Android apps and Youtube purchases to a free Gmail account quite egregious. GSuite already had lesser consumer functionality than regular Gmail accounts, at least let us transfer over our purchases.

It is quite egregious that purchases in app stores cannot be migrated but as far as FAQ states, you don't lose access to that Google account and as such you don't lose access to the purchased content. You just lose access to the email and productivity suite. Think of the scenario where you sign up to a Google account using a Hotmail account: you can make Google apps/content purchases in that account

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by renewiltord »

Hmm, there is very little information on this. They've sort of botched the operation. I've got no problem paying, but the problem is I don't actually know if I'll keep the functionality since half of what I use is under add-ons.

Will I lose my Google Fi phone number? It sounds like I should just migrate away everything I use, but it's going to be a bit of a hassle to actually look up everything I use, hmm.

Well, I guess I have to find a weekend sometime between now and June.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by pxx »

GeekyBear wrote: post #849
pxx wrote: post #828

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The accounts don't disappear when you cancel. Only the Workspace features. https://support.google.com/a/answer/1257646?hl=en

Did you notice that step one of that link is "Save your data"?

The _accounts_ don't disappear. The data linked with the features you're cancelling does. So, apps and purchased digital goods don't seem to disappear. Files that you need to pay for storage costs for do.

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Post by cosmotic »

neogodless wrote: post #803
cosmotic wrote: post #796

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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).

Wow. Why is it so much? I saw the $6/month per user plan, which would be $216 for three humans. Is that a massively discounted (80%) introductory price?

You saw correct, but user != human. User = email address. Two NASes, a bug tracker, a CI/CD server, printer, a catch all for either of two domains, it adds up. The combined disk usage is about 3GB, well under the limit for a single user.

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Post by sprintf »

celso wrote: post #791

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Does Cloudflare Email Routing support Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Rewriting_Scheme ?

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Post by ineedasername »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #602
ineedasername wrote: post #544

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Back when I was using Apple I paid for an @mac.com address. I could get used to paying for email again, though I may be in the minority there. Although being a paid product didn't stop Apple from killing it.

> Although being a paid product didn't stop Apple from killing it. ? Email to whoever@mac.com is still working as far as I know, and I send emails to a couple of people who still use mac.com addresses all the time (whoever@icloud.com also works). https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201771

This was the .Mac subscription. Poking around the history, it looks like I misunderstood Apple's move at the time. When they discontinued .Mac they also seem to have switched to the me.com domain. My impression at the time from whatever messaging they sent out to subscribers was "no more mac.com email" so that's when I switched to Gmail.

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Post by lanterk »

scotty79 wrote: post #634
l33tman wrote: post #485

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You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month? I'm all about Google being evil and all that, but spending valuable aggression on this seems a bit excessive.. The Google Takeout system gives you all of your email in a format you might be able to import into another system?

Yes. Because non-free is infinitely more than free. Imagine nothing changes, but now your wife demands you pay her cost of cup of coffee every time you have sex. Does that eff you up a little bit or do you barely notice?

Um, depending on where you live, wouldn't that create some legal headache?
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