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

Post by antifa » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:39 PM UTC

awill wrote: post #24

michaelmrose wrote: post #19

Bummer the only value I get out of the service as an individual user over Gmail is a custom domain. Migration is going to suck only because of stupidly relying on login with Google which won't work after I putge everything google from my life with fire. I'm presuming this includes paid apps that Google will be stealing when I decline to pay them by the month to keep them. Lesson learned don't use anything Google.

I switched to Migadu a few years ago, as I realized that having a personal account with Google Workspace was a bad idea. All Google features kept getting delayed for Workspace users. Google removed the free tier (huge red flag on its future). Fortunately I just had to migrate email and calendar. You're in a bigger mess. Yep. Get out. Stop relying on Google for anything important.

Post by samueldr » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:41 PM UTC

angus-prune wrote: post #406

samueldr wrote: post #150

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Any idea if they'll make a "gmail.com" account migration utility down the line? This is extremely concerning for Play store purchases, and anything non-email attached to the "google apps for your domain" account, like YouTube.

I dug into this with support and the docs. When you cancel workspace, the accounts remain active but lose access to just the workspace features (gmail, drive, docs, calendar etc). The accounts will remain the same for things like google play, youtube etc and you won't lose access to any purchases. The biggest impact I can see, other than the headache of migration, is that former GFYD email address can NEVER be used f…

Post by ArchOversight » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:43 PM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #395

y4mi wrote: post #241

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Its not just googlers, the legacy accounts where available to everyone at the start. but the venn diagram overlap of people * willing to pay for such a tool, * not having switched to another provider since * and not willing to start paying for it now will be tiny

It was free for 10 accounts. The number one massively applicable use case vs plain google accounts was vanity domain names and signing up was no harder than creating a regular gmail account. There are probably more vanity domain users than small businesses with 10 people. In fact I would venture to guess with the 10 address limit they are nearly 100% of the remaining users on the legacy program. The cost of the domai…

Post by rubyist5eva » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:47 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #186

rubyist5eva wrote: post #69

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I'm sure they are banking on people just ponying up the cash because they've been with them for so long. It's basically mafia protection payments. Pay us or we'll break your legs (delete all your data).

Do you know anybody else who will give me free hosting for the next 12 years before demanding payment? I think I'm okay with moving once every ten or twelve years.

Post by angus-prune » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 10:54 PM UTC

samueldr wrote: post #413

angus-prune wrote: post #406

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I dug into this with support and the docs. When you cancel workspace, the accounts remain active but lose access to just the workspace features (gmail, drive, docs, calendar etc). The accounts will remain the same for things like google play, youtube etc and you won't lose access to any purchases. The biggest impact I can see, other than the headache of migration, is that former GFYD email address can NEVER be used f…

I will wait for an official answer from a Google rep. There is too much at stake to guesstimate on vague phrasing. And still, losing google docs document sharing, and calendar, on the e-mail address identifier which will stay my valid and primary one is a hostile move, plain and simple.