[HN Gopher] Google could face class action lawsuit over free G S...
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       Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite legacy
       account shutdown
        
       Author : woranl
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2022-01-21 22:09 UTC (51 minutes ago)
        
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       | danhab99 wrote:
       | If Google wins, it will be a demonstration into how important it
       | is to read terms of service.
       | 
       | I mean what if there was a clause in the original terms of
       | service from all those years ago that said "free forever was not
       | actually forever", and Google chose to stop being free today.
       | What if it was always there and none of us noticed?
        
       | sschueller wrote:
       | I don't understand why Google didn't just continue to grandfather
       | the existing free accounts. They already limited them from
       | changing primary domain and number of users that can exist.
       | Additionally a lot of people (like me) will run out of storage
       | and pay for the extra storage. Run ads in my account for all I
       | care. Why is gmail still free at this point?
       | 
       | Instead they decided that stating "Free forever" doesn't mean
       | forever and screw the people who decided to trust you from day 1.
       | 
       | Yeah, I know it's free and I shouldn't complain but moving email
       | is a huge ordeal and giving me just a few months after 10+ years
       | is a dick move. BTW, I have yet to receive an email from Google
       | telling me that my account will no longer be free. I first heard
       | of this on HN yesterday.
        
         | jfengel wrote:
         | I'm not sure, but given the intermittent grief I've had with
         | this, it seems like they have to pay a team to maintain it.
         | Maybe it's more than just some cheapo storage and CPU time, but
         | a cost to them in maintenance (including unexpected upkeep of
         | seemingly unrelated features).
         | 
         | I can't imagine why that is. You'd think it would be easy. But
         | I've had enough cases where my account wasn't compatible with
         | something (especially my Pixel phone) that makes me suspect
         | that this lets them jettison some of their code base.
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | The lawyers appear to be filtering to people who have been
       | informed by Google. I'm a legacy free gsuite instance with a
       | domain but haven't been directly informed, I just know about it
       | third hand.
       | 
       | I still expect the problem. As a non US instance I'm wary of
       | class action in the US anyway.
        
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