Bought single-purchase Office licenses a while back and M$ still constantly pushes me to get a stupid M365 (or whatever the hell they’re calling it now) subscription. Get entirely fucked, both of them
After filing a GDPR subject access request asking Google to provide evidence of business use, the user said the company abruptly reversed course the following day and restored the account
Funny how that works
“We never said whose life” - Google, probably
With paid softwares and services, it’s always the lifetime of the product’s profitability.
They started this BS a few years ago… At the time they were going to totally remove the program, and finally backed off from that stance if you agreed to use only for non business purposes. Horse was outta the barn though, a lot of people migrated away.
The thing is, Google very clearly and purposefully marketed this as a free for life program to get your family domains on there in return for earning credibility with IT influencers and decision makers. If they remove this program, they’ll burn that goodwill (if any is left, lol) and frankly should return all of the value they got from scanning our data for the past 20 years or so which was a known part of the “free for life” trade.
I’m degoogling as fast as possible and have all except some family members off Gsuite so far.
Immich Nextcloud My own postfix email server (I’m a super nerd) Thunderbird and rainloop email clients Duckduckgo is default everywhere and use searxing in some cases Also have a pihole doing dns blocking of Google’s junk and ublock origin on all home pcs
I don’t have a great replacement for YouTube yet. Actually I subscribe to YouTube premium because I feel like that at least gets creators paid
These are a few of the ways I’ve handled it
Yeah, I got the “This isn’t free anymore” email a few years ago about my GSuite account. I switched to Proton, then they followed up with the “Well, if you aren’t using it for business you can keep it”. Too late Google. I’m happy with the move. Thankfully my primary Google account on my phone wasn’t that GSuite account, so I didn’t have to worry about Play Store or YouTube.
I also switched from Google Photos to Immich because Google was deciding I was using too much space and wanted me to pay a subscription, despite them offering the same amount of free space for over a decade as storage prices have plummeted. I guess the value of mining my data has bottomed out and now they want my cash and data. Well, now they get neither.
Had my account since the Gmail inception, before public signups. Definitely happened to me. Switched to Proton.
I have had mine for literal decades as well, and used it for so much stuff over the years it is hard to entirely ditch. However i have switched to proton some years ago as well and simply set up mail forwarding to my new account, in case anything important ever comes in over that gmail.
You two are confusing me, are we not talking about Google ending free Google workspace? It sounds to me like you’re both talking about @gmail.com addresses. Why would you need to forward your email if you can just change your MX to point to proton? Also if you ended your Google workspace, you wouldn’t have anything to forward because it wouldn’t be handling your email…
I’m lost.
They’re talking about their Google account in general
So Google is still reading a large part of your mail.
I did the same thing except that I changed my email for the services I receive most mails from. After a few months, very little communication still flowed through my Gmail address.
Yeah, thats the goal. I Already changed it where possible, eventually i will hopefully no longer need to keep it
That’s me. Then I’ll just move back to either self hosting or paying for some other provider.
I recently went about setting up an account with an email provider that purely provides mail. Very happy with them so far, the only thing they don’t do that I do use with my free legacy gapps is Google Drive.
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