A number of years ago, I did a video on how to move your YouTube channel away from Workspace. I took a large number of steps before I hit the appeal button. Is a YT video worth it or is everyone on a timer already?

Otherwise, I would need to type everything I did up from hand written notes. I feel like a video is easier showing where I made changes. Note, this is not to circumvent if you are using Standard Free for commercial use. Its to clean up an idications that might be out there is you are legit using it for personal use.

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?

Just received this morning a pub about THE solution for migrating our family members accounts (mail, drive, password, VPN, custom domain) to a EU country and GDPR compliant environment. Including migration services from US main cloud actors

https://infopeak.io/fr/

Strangely I don’t find any feedback , seems to be a brand new solution.

Any information , thanks in advance, Phil

Has anyone, yet, experienced having their full G Suite Legacy Free account (or Business Starter Free account) actually terminated in the last few months, due to alleged "commercial use"?

The question here isn't whether you were notified, threatened or even had your appeal denied. The question here, specifically and only, if the date you were given by Google in the commercial use notification passed and, at some point thereafter, your account was terminated.

A second question is, if you were notified about alleged commercial use, and given a final date of termination, and either your appeal was denied or you didn't appeal altogether (specify which of those two applies to you), and the termination date you were given passed already, and your G Suite Legacy Free account (or Business Starter Free account) is still active and working, even though you did not upgrade to a paid account?

These are public complaints and run through a mediated process. They often get a priority support team within companies, even if they are not BBB accredited (like Google), to handle. They sometimes report directly to the executive (e.g. Samsung). Has anyone tried this?

https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/mountain-view/profile/internet-service/google-llc-1216-214105/complaints

(edit to clarify BBB procedures, mediation vs support, etc)

How mediation is different from support: "Mediation is a voluntary, confidential, and informal dispute resolution process where a neutral third party (mediator) helps conflicting parties communicate and negotiate to reach a mutually acceptable agreement. Unlike a judge or arbitrator, the mediator does not impose a solution, but rather facilitates a settlement, often used in civil, family, or employment disputes to avoid court." In short, because the nature of the process is different, BBB complaints often access different job roles in the target company.

ITIL discusses mediation yet most corporate support frameworks do not implement it. There are often free mediation services within cities apart from BBB but they often lack the workflow infrastructure of BBB; it also does not require a local address in the jurisidiction.

Google does respond to the BBB complaints submitted to it and the BBB Core team (likely as an extension of Google support via a contract).

BBB Dispute resolution procedures: "Upon filing, complaints are forwarded to the business within two business days, and businesses are requested to respond within 14 calendar days. A follow-up is issued if no response is received, and most cases are closed within approximately 30 days with statuses such as “resolved,” “answered,” “unanswered,” or “unresolved.”"

Per titel :)

My Google Applications for your Domain is being shut down.

Now that Apple has created a free Apple Business domain email for up to 100 emails (5gb) has anyone tried them after being kicked off Google? That's my plan if I ever get the notification from Google. If so, how was the transfer process? Can you transfer old emails? I know I would have to migrate from Google Drive to Apple Icloud.

https://business.apple.com/

🍏 Apple Business (Custom Domain Email) – 2026 Pricing

🆓 Free Tier

• $0 / user / month
• 5 GB storage per user
• Custom domain email (you@yourdomain.com)
• Basic web + Mail app access

👉 This is Apple’s first real free business email tier, similar in spirit to old Google Workspace legacy.

💰 Paid Upgrades (iCloud+ for Business Users)

If users need more storage, you upgrade per user:

• $0.99/month → 50 GB
• $2.99/month → 200 GB
• $9.99/month → 2 TB
• 📧 What’s included
• Custom domain email hosting
• Multiple users under one domain
• Shared email addresses (like info@, sales@)
• Spam filtering + Apple privacy protections
• Works with:
  • Apple Mail
  • Outlook
  • IMAP clients

Welp, I sure am glad I stayed subscribed to this sub. * sigh *

While I haven't received a termination or upgrade notice, I've grown tired of having the axe over my neck and I wanted to start planning an exit strategy, mainly for my wife and I as my kids really don't use their accounts anymore.

We are considering moving over to iCloud. Gmail, Google Photos, Google Keep and Google calendars (shared) are the big apps we use. Not worried about Drive as we store most stuff locally and use Libreoffice these days. Wife and I purchased Macbook Airs last year and we are happy with them, but we are still using Android devices (for now) and really haven't used anything else in the Apple ecosystem. Looking for experiences, gotchas, and any other pros/cons to this move.

Thanks!