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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 Macha »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #748
themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

Is it a surprise? It's been almost a decade since Google stopped offering this as a free product. The writing has been on the wall for over 9 years.

Put another way, Google has had a decade to build a migration path from the product they decided would be business only to their consumer product, but didn't.

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

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Post by rc_mob »

cx42net wrote: post #711

If your main use case is to keep using Gmail with a custom domain, then it’s still possible to achieve it using our service - improvmx.com. We’ve prepared a guide that explains how to migrate step-by-step: https://improvmx.com/guides/gsuite-legacy-free-edition-alter... Achieving the same functionality is possible on our free plan, and you can still use Gmail’s free SMTP method ( https://improvmx.com/guides/send-email…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Macha wrote: post #751

> Yes. If your needs have changed and you don’t want to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription, you can use the Data Export tool to export your organization’s data. This is such a half assed answer. Data Export won't export my android purchases for example.

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

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Post by jrochkind1 »

pkrumins wrote: post #794

Does anyone know if this applies to Gmail for domains as well?

I don't think there is such a thing called "gmail for domains".

If you have gmail at a custom domain, you aren't paying anything for it, and you've had it for 10 years or more like that... this is probably talking about you, yes.

The thing some of us have had for 10 years or more has been called different things at different points in Google history. Including "Google Apps For Your Domain" and "G-Suite" and "Google Workspace". Maybe it was called "gmail for domains" at one point? It's honestly been very confusing as google keeps changing how things work and what they are called and migrating my legacy free account along each time, with some services breaking etc., I almost feel like I'm finally being put out of my misery.

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

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Post by bmarquez »

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.

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

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Post by MarkusWandel »

fuzzy2 wrote: post #818
MarkusWandel wrote: post #785

I have four active email users in my free "legacy edition" vanity domain workspace. I am not willing to pay USD4x6x12 per year to have this continue to work. Looking around for the most affordable alternative for four active email accounts brings me to... Microsoft! Microsoft 365 Family Edition. Like a lot of salary drones I use Microsoft products at work, so I get a discount. It is sad to be paying for full Microsof…

Good luck with that. For home accounts, you’re tied to GoDaddy. Or rather Microsoft via GoDaddy? Who knows. I would NEVER use GoDaddy after reading various experiences around the net. Also, no aliases. Are multiple domains even possible?

Their help admittedly is professional-tier centric and suggests that if you can edit your DNS record to add the "I own this" file they give you, you can use any domain. Do they explicitly not support this for the family edition? I guess I'll have to test it with a free month and a spare domain.

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

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Post by joshstrange »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There is a $30/person tier, maybe they are using something that requires that? For myself I'm doing a data export then I'll purge the backup accounts and automated email accounts (for email alerts for self-hosted stuff I have home@mydomain.com). I'll move all my alert sending to AWS SES and get away with $6/mo for myself.

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

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Post by pxx »

GeekyBear wrote: post #783

Google, this is a bait and switch mess of your own making. The solution is to allow users an option to convert back to a free account without losing access to their data, files, apps, and any purchased digital goods.

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

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

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Post by starik36 »

neogodless wrote: post #776
Aaronstotle wrote: post #767

So if I use gmail for personal email, I now have to switch to a paid plan?

If you use GSuite Legacy for personal email, you would have the choice of switching to a paid plan, or migrating your email to a personal account (or any other email hosting provider.) If you use a personal GMail account, there is no change here that applies to you.

> migrating your email to a personal account

I use GSuite Legacy for a personal email only. So migrating my foo@customdomain.com to a @gmail.com is fine. However, I didn't see anything in the article that indicates that this will be offered or even possible.

Where did you see this?

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

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Post by pygy_ »

mxuribe wrote: post #747
themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

I've also been used to the free tier of GSuite...but honestly, i can not complain. I got to use my own custom domain for my family for several years...so i can't be upset really. That being said, a few months ago i started testing zoho mail...because i had planneed to move away from google anyway (for reasons that are not about cost, but more about principles)...and so far my tests are pretty good with them! Zoho's p…

Do you know if one can enable the catchall with the Zoho cheap plan (€0.9/month/user)? I have a single mail account, but I use the catchall to provide distinct email adresses to corporations (so if I ever get mail from foo-corp@my-domain.example.com, I know who leaked it).
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