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       "Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as 'commercial use' could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail."Stupid people do stupid things. There is a reason why for ~30 years I have refused to touch Meta (Facebook), Google (Gmail, etc), Apple (IDK what they even sell), or Microsoft products (also not super familiar with their product line-up).Not to mention Adobe, and many others. And that is just in "tech".I was once young (~11 ? or so maybe) and maybe not near as naive as the average adult today, but even I was questioning my use of Hotmail long before Microsoft bought the company.I was 100% right to be skeptical that Hotmail wouldn't sell out to Microsoft, and then they did.I was right not to use Facebook when everyone around me was hopping on board.I was right in my quest to move away from Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop.I made a lot of good decisions ... now if only other people would take responsibility for their own stupidity and stop blaming the evil people behind said companies.You enabled this. Take some responsibility for your actions and spend some time and dollars [euros/bitcoin/monero/etc] where it matters to mitigate that stupidity. The free market enables changes, but only if people actually utilize it to their benefit. I also have been maintaining a mail server for about as long. When I was abused- I learned- I switched to less hostile operators. I've dealt with different companies and some were terrible/abusive- one suspended an account I had in 1997 I believe after they changed their policies to prohibit mp3s and then immediately scanned and suspended accounts without warning.