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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

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Post by zippergz »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #157
wodenokoto wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re not using the productivity suite (docs, drive, sheets and whatnot) why not go with the little guy and use Fastmail? $5/user with 30gb or 100gb per user for $9/month Their support replies faster than google :)

Does Google support ever reply???!

I think they have always replied to me (as a paying customer). Now, whether their reply has any relevance to the question I asked, let alone solves my problem, is another issue entirely. I have at times wondered if they just have a random reply generator that doesn't look at anything except the subject line of the request.

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

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Post by snuxoll »

criddell wrote: post #54
sgloutnikov wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah thinking the same. Microsoft 365 most likely the best switch for me. With 2 users and my custom domain, for cheaper might as well get 1TB cloud storage and Office as well. iCloud+ may also be an option.

I just hate that you have to move your domain to GoDaddy.

I don't understand why they do this. Microsoft used to have a service called Windows Live Domains that used your normal TXT-record validation and killed it off in 2014; the shift to requiring GoDaddy be your registrar for outlook.com premium just baffles me.

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

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Post by Aloha »

blakesterz wrote: post #148
jfengel wrote: post #100

Huh. I thought that was what I had, but I haven't heard this directly from them. It's the first I've heard of it. I used a microscopic subset of the features. Aside from them hosting my email, I don't think I'm any different from other users. It's just me; I'm not really a business. I notice some differences, mostly in limitations: less storage, features of my Pixel phone that sometimes don't work with that account.…

> Perhaps I'm on yet another different legacy thing. I keep wondering the same thing. Haven't seen any communication at all from Google, so maybe for some reason I don't fall into this thing that is no longer free? They can't possibly do this to me and not even tell me... can they?

I mean they can, but it'd be kinda foolish, we're the people who've been pushing people into their service.

O365 looks pretty decent.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

jasonsync wrote: post #128

A long, long time ago I registered a domain name for a close group of friends, and the 4 of us have been happily use the free Gsuite for email @thedomain ever since. From what I can tell we'd will have to start paying CAD $31.20 per month for 4 users. Seems pricy for our use case?

do the friends only email each other on the domain, or use it for all things email? if doing it just amongst the friends, you can drop to just one account, then share the credentials amongst the group. use it like freedom fighters to just write drafts to each other.

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

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Post by xeromal »

jahlove wrote: post #161
Apreche wrote: post #139

I knew something like this would probably come, but it doesn't make it any better. Complete BS. 16 years ago me and my friends signed up for "GMail for your domain". That's it. We wanted to use GMail, which was by far the best email available at the time, and have email addresses at our own domain instead of @gmail.com. That's it. Since that time several of us have been using our GFYD/GSuite/Workspaces accounts as ou…

> And now we're being forced to pay for something that everyone else gets for free. > Just looks like most of our accounts are going to get deleted or are going to have to pay $6/month for nothing. Am I wrong or are you paying that $6/mo for having the gmail UI in front of your custom domain? Doesn't really seem like nothing.

That's what I'm doing. I wanted a vanity domain, but didn't want to deal with email server BS so I got a Google Workspace. The 1TB of cloud storage helps too.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

mpettitt wrote: post #123
snarkerson wrote: post #103

So no more free gmail accounts?

No, they like @gmail.com, but don't want people getting gmail for their own domains without paying.

If you pay, do they stop scanning all of your emails?

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

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Post by gnabgib »

The article title is "G Suite legacy free edition", and is about a service which hasn't been available for 10 years being finally sunset, last day of access 30-April. Wouldn't "G Suite legacy free edition ends May, 2022" be a less editorialized title?

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

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Post by area51org »

raspyberr wrote: post #102
AndrewDucker wrote: post #17

I created a free account many years ago for my family. We've all been using it ever since for everything. So I have a lot of purchases and history in there. All of my YouTube stuff, all of my Android purchases. Everything to do with Google. And now they're going to start charging me $70 per family member or delete all of their purchases for the last decade or so. To say I'm aghast is putting it mildly.

Putting everything into the hands of an enormous corporation and being surprised when they do things to benefit themselves. insert picture of shocked but not that shocked fry meme

That's not an excuse to actually be complete assholes.

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

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Post by q1w2 »

yaacov wrote: post #81

> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. 10 years of a free product is not bad

99% of the users of the free product just wanted to have their group/family/etc to use gmail with a custom domain.

That product is still free at other providers. We'll just be moving.

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

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Post by moberley »

a2tech wrote: post #107

Does anyone know of another service that accepts the email+whatever@domain.com wildcard? I've used that feature a lot over the years and its the only thing keeping me on Google Mail

Fastmail does generally support that.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591053-Plu...

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