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AFAIK people who did not set up billing get this transition account so their access is not cut off completely.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?#!topic/firebase-talk/jWRCd...

It seems it was an unintended consequence of the Google Maps change and many users were affected and confused by it [1]. If you add a Billing account to a cloud project, Firebase will automatically upgrade you to Blaze. Since Google Maps added a billing account automatically to your Google Cloud account, that auto-upgraded your Firebase plan.

The response from the Firebase team [2] was that no additional charges would occur based on this incident, and they've opened an incident report [3] in their dashboard.

- [1] StackOverflow Thread with users facing similar confusion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51373671/project-upgrade...

- [2] Official Firebase response https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-US#!topic/firebase-ta...

- [3] Firebase incident report for issue "Firebase Users who use Maps API get auto-upgraded to Blaze" https://status.firebase.google.com/incident/Console/18016

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