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Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by evulhotdog »

copper-float wrote: post #39
nha1 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I learned recently that there is controversy around Proton and (surprisingly to me) far-right. Previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446899

Some people understand that there is naunce in the world. This is literally just the view of a single sponsor. The way everyone gets so up-in-arms about the political views of a person three levels detached from the company is insane. "Oh no, an individual with different views than me offhandedly mentioned Proton, the horror! I can't possibly differentiate between the views of a company and a separate individual! Let…

I believe when the views of that person who has influence on the product, and it does not align with the services they say they desire to provide, it’s an issue.

It also can purely be choosing to not support an organization that doesn’t align with your world view. The money in our pockets is the power to change things.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by soraminazuki »

necovek wrote: post #23
fillthegap wrote: post #22

I think ditching google would've been a better choice.

Well, if the alternative was going to be Microsoft 365... not so sure :)

Or just ditch both. These companies have nothing but contempt for their users and signing up for their services is just asking for trouble. There are alternatives for email and whatever else is needed from these services.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by EvanAnderson »

an0malous wrote: post #35
an0malous wrote: post #31

My business Workspace account got suspended recently, no reason given, can’t even login to contact support. I’m a solo user so I only had one admin account and that was the one locked out. There was just one text field to submit an appeal, so I did. I never got any email confirmation or tracking number for my appeal, it’s been a week now with no contact from Google. This happened about a week after they charged my cr…

I’m also worried that this is just the future of SaaS where everything is a Kafkaesque nightmare of automated processes no one even understands anymore, and even these incidents are lost in so much complexity the businesses either don’t care or don’t even know it’s happening.

That's pretty much the way the work did now if you're dealing with the "right" companies. The future isn't evenly distributed.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by pitched »

evulhotdog wrote: post #41
copper-float wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people understand that there is naunce in the world. This is literally just the view of a single sponsor. The way everyone gets so up-in-arms about the political views of a person three levels detached from the company is insane. "Oh no, an individual with different views than me offhandedly mentioned Proton, the horror! I can't possibly differentiate between the views of a company and a separate individual! Let…

I believe when the views of that person who has influence on the product, and it does not align with the services they say they desire to provide, it’s an issue. It also can purely be choosing to not support an organization that doesn’t align with your world view. The money in our pockets is the power to change things.

If I’m reading this right, it was a failure at due diligence before sponsoring a YouTube channel. That doesn’t sound at all like what you wrote so maybe you could expand on what the controversy was?

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by phyzome »

an0malous wrote: post #31

My business Workspace account got suspended recently, no reason given, can’t even login to contact support. I’m a solo user so I only had one admin account and that was the one locked out. There was just one text field to submit an appeal, so I did. I never got any email confirmation or tracking number for my appeal, it’s been a week now with no contact from Google. This happened about a week after they charged my cr…

Dispute the credit card charge and you might be able to get in touch with someone.

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by fg137 »

> I was about to ditch Google completely and head over to Microsoft

That is the obvious thing to do. Don't understand why you even waste time there. You are digging a deeper hole for yourself.

If they cannot even provide proper support for sign up, what will happen when your account gets disabled for no obvious reason, and you potentially lose years of emails?

Re: Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

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Post by fg137 »

sikozu wrote: post #6

This was a fun read. Absolutely baffling behaviour from Google.

Not baffling at all. Google could not care less about individual users. (lots of horror stories about account getting disabled here and on reddit.) They only care about large enterprise customers. Not even the smaller ones, only the largest. Speaking from first hand experience.
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