Forced Off Legacy - UK
We are a large family of 7. Using legacy since the beginning.
Our account is a personal account. I have separate domains for my businesses.
We failed our appeal. Which, of course we were going to do, since as I can read from this forum, they use "signals" data to judge/determine that my account is commercial.
Many of these rumoured reasons appear to be either unreasonable or "entrapment" style issues where by clicking a button, me or my family members have un-knowingly broken their unwritten rules.
Is this the reason? I once filled in a form about my place of work into Google. At the time I just thought this was me telling them some locational/address data. I did not realise that this was me "linking a business" to my personal account. My browser was logged in to my personal account, which was my first and only account with Google at the time.
What about YouTube? When my son was around 14 he started a YouTube channel and he applied for monetization. Never received any money though.
Regardless of what you or Google may think, these actions not necessarily change the definition of my account as being personal to be commercial.
My four sons are all engineer types and have used services at Google. We all develop and enjoy software as a hobby, we run a large family only minecraft server for example. Perhaps we have used services like GCP using our email addresses? This does not make us a business though. I have a 10inch comms rack in my cupboard at home and a business grade network in the house, this does not make me a business either.
Google, please publish what your checks are. At the moment it looks like you are pushing people off a service you don't want to continue. You backtracked on the closing of this a few years ago, but now using this stealth tactic to close it down. I appreciate you might need some enforcement to ensure people are not really businesses but from what I can tell, you are catching out valid personal consumers in your activities
I only have two weeks to migrate but regardless of this, I intend to investigate this activity and look for issues in how this service is being operated in the UK.
Does anyone have material on this please? Are there up to date Terms and Conditions?