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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 weeblewobble »

ryandvm wrote: post #227
chimprich wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm a Google employee who just found out about this. I'm not annoyed that I have to pay, it's been ~13 years of free service and I don't think Google is obligated to continue providing this to me. Well I'm very annoyed. It's not that I might have to pay for a service, it's the unfairness of it. I've several friends and family members up with accounts on my domain to be nice to them to make life easier for them or b…

Agreed. I'm fucking livid. I don't know what their freeloader costs are on the grandfathered Google domain accounts, but I'm having a hard time believing it's going to be worth the amount of goodwill they're going to burn by shitting on their most loyal users of all. These folks have been using Google services (and presumably suggesting as much to others) for at least 10 years. But I'm not paying $100/mo so my extend…

I've been reading people on HN talk about how Google is burning their goodwill and there will be Very Serious Consequences for a literal decade. Over that time Google stock price has gone up 10x.

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Post by wffurr »

theossuary wrote: post #226

I'm definitely getting screwed over by this. I've hosted close friend's and family's email for a decade now on an old G Apps instance. We only ever used it for email on a custom domain. It was most useful because I could reset passwords for them if they forgot it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do. Microsoft's Family offering is way better (not saying much considering Google doesn't have one). Right now…

Why would you lose purchases? Can't you continue to log in with the same email@domain just with a different provider for mail / calendar / etc.?

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Post by nunez »

So I guess that's a great way to shovel hundreds of thousands of legacy Workspace users down to Google consumer.

Honestly, the only reason why I'm even on Workspace is because of Gmail aliases, but this news is reminding me that I need to stop paying them $12/month for this (which used to be free back in the day, and it was $6/month just last year!)

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Post by austhrow743 »

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…

Are they holding your domain hostage somehow?

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Post by cromka »

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…

> I'd be less angry if they offered some way to escape. Let use merge/transition our accounts with personal Google accounts. Let us have personal accounts with custom domain, iCloud offers that feature now.

Same exact story, although we have been using it like this closer to 20 years now.

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Post by nacs »

SergeAx wrote: post #284
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 :)

Why migrate to Fastmail for $5/user, if one can keep their installation of G Suite for $6/user?

1) You can stop feeding personal data into the Google (advertisement) ecosystem

2) Google is notorious for killing off services or changing their agreements at a moments notice like here so there is a chance they'll drop their offering or increase prices.

3) Google support is either terrible or nonexistent (unless you're lucky enough to get your complaint to the HN frontpage).

I'm an affected user and I plan to put in the effort to migrate -- I only use it for email on a custom domain and have been doing regular backups (using gmvault) in case Google changed their mind so moving to a new service should be a breeze.

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Post by lobsang »

So, does anyone have a recommended alternative for a mail provider with support for custom domain names?

Like a lot of people this is literally the only reason I have a legacy workspace account.

Also, I guess, any recommendations for a decent IMAP client for Android?

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