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
“We never said whose life” - Google, probably
With paid softwares and services, it’s always the lifetime of the product’s profitability.
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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