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Cordivaeon Goodreads has no incentive to be good

Exactly how I describe it to my wife.

Cordivaeon I'm tired of Google's business products

Exactly. If I have to leave I will leave forever as well. To the point of buying a mac / iphone, and completely leaving the google ecosystem. That's how much this pisses me off.

Its now about the principle rather than how much it actually costs.

Cordivaeon I'm tired of Google's business products

Exactly. They make major decisions, give you less than 3 months to completely change things you depend on. And you can't even get someone on the phone (or even email for god-sake) to complain to.

Cordivaeon I'm tired of Google's business products

Yes. I own the domains. And if they go through with this I will move and leave Google's ecosystem entirely.

It will be a huge pain in the ass trying to do it for my grandparents though.

Cordivaeon I'm tired of Google's business products

I hate Google Workspace so much.

Not because of the product, which seems fine. But because 10 years ago I signed up for google apps. It was marketed as a way to have a vanity gmail domain. Free forever up to 10 users.

I thought it was cool, was a huge Google fan at the time, and created a custom domain for myself and another one for my grandparents. Now, 10 years later they are holding my online persona hostage in a shameless cash grab to try and make Workspaces more profitable.

All I ever wanted was my own Gmail domain. I have zero use for the business functionality. Fuck you google.

I'm a VP of Cloud Platform for a rather large enterprise and quite frankly this is why we won't even consider Google Cloud. Broken trust. Broken promises.