Comment by miah_ | Hacker News Reader

Comment by miah_ | Hacker News Reader

My big problem with paying for Youtube is I have a workspace account for my personal domain. None of their services inter-operate with workspace services. For example, our Google Home. My wife cannot register her voice with the system because she has a 'google account' not an account on my workspace. Because of this, our Home will regularly deny her the ability to listen to "age restricted" podcasts about cooking (they sometimes swear omg). Similarly, if I pay for Youtube, I cannot "share with my family" unless they are also on my workspace.

Clearly, the solution is for me to create another google account to use for these services and only use my workspace account for one thing. But then why am I paying Google to host my workspace account? Should I pay them _MORE_ for my wife and children to also be on my workspace, as well as paying for Youtube? (don't worry, I'm working on migrating off workspaces too).

(and fwiw, I paid for youtube premium for years, and watch hours of youtube content a day)

Gsuite for personal use is and has always been very very half baked. To answer your question. I pay for it too but I also ask myself the same question as to why I don't just move my domain to a simpler service that'll host an email.

But yes, the solution is definitely having a separate private gmail for those services.

I moved to Outlook with a Microsoft 365 subscription after I found out you could have a custom domain tied to your email (via GoDaddy only, but you can still do it with the right DNS entries) and then made my Google account a free Gmail account.

I got way too sick of getting features months, or even years later, than consumer Google accounts. I wish they would offer a paid tier for Google/Gmail accounts that would allow one custom domain for email.

Happy to plug Fastmail as a happy customer!

Their spam filtering is trash. Every day I get 1-2 obvious scam/spam emails. On the worst days I get 5+. I’ve been a customer for a year and I mark the spam as such with discipline and it has never caught on to what is spam. I’m at my limit and seriously considering going back to Workspace.

That's wild, and a bit disappointing to hear. My spam protection has been top-notch. Perhaps because it's a custom domain with very little traffic. Also I mask everything with 1Password which has been nothing but good too.

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