Re: [WAMUG] Gmail - a cautionary tale

[Tim Law via WAMUG]

   Thanks Peter,

   A forum guided me to lodge a request at
   [1]https://bit.ly/2TvIp6U which I have done and I will see if they can
   resurrect my account.

   What tricked me was through the deletion process it kept warning me I
   was going to lose my Workspace Business Starter account. I thought yep
   - that’s what I want I don’t want one of those.Not realising they
   had changed my status into a business and foisted this new thing onto
   me and they were referring to what I thought was my personal account.

   We will see what happens.

   Regards

   Tim

   On 7 Sep 2022, at 7:46 am, Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG
   <[2]wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> wrote:

 On 6 Sep 2022, at 3:55 pm, Tim Law via WAMUG
 <[3]wa...@lists.wamug.org.au> wrote:
  Good afternoon
  Not specifically Mac related
  Ages ago I set up a Google Account and used my regular email
 address.
  This happens to be a private domain under [1][4]com.au
  I clearly missed something fairly important from Google a while ago
 and
  they seem to have assumed all [2][5]com.au accounts must be
 businesses and
  therefore transferred them all over onto a paid service they call
  Workspace.
  I kept on getting messages from Google telling me to set up a
 payment
  plan for my Workspace account but ignored them as I didn’t request
 the
  account - as I said I clearly missed out on key message they
 probably
  tried to convey. As a single user, I never saw myself as a business
 and
  their messaging was very business focused and they talked about
  managing my whole domain under Workspace - something I didn’t ask
 for,
  agree to or want.
  Consequences are that I have now deleted my Workspace account, and
 in
  the process have unexpectedly deleted my associated Google account,
  plus alarmingly all the YouTube videos I have carefully crafted
 over
  the years. Gone and with no way of retrieving it. :-(
  @gmail.com Google accounts are safe from their assumptions and
  changes.
  I hope this is useful somehow.
  Tim
 References

 Very useful advice, even though it’s cost you a lot to discover it.
 I too discovered some time ago that the only way to avoid confusion
 and distress with dealing with anything Google online is to have a
 Google email address, even if you never use it for any other reason
 than for logging into Google-based sites.
 It also helps with other websites which offer OAuth access, ie, they
 allow you to create an account ot login using a Google account email
 address. Much easier if that address ends in .[6]gmail.com.
 Kind regards,
 Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
 FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
 Perth, Western Australia
 Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948
 
 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
 Archives - <[7]https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/>
 Guidelines -
 <[8]http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>
 Settings & Unsubscribe -
 <[9]http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>

References

   1. https://bit.ly/2TvIp6U
   2. mailto:wa...@lists.wamug.org.au
   3. mailto:wa...@lists.wamug.org.au
   4. http://com.au/
   5. http://com.au/
   6. http://gmail.com/
   7. https://www.mail-archive.com/wamug@wamug.org.au/
   8. http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml
   9. http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Settings & Unsubscribe - 

Re: [WAMUG] Gmail - a cautionary tale

[Peter Hinchliffe via WAMUG]

> On 6 Sep 2022, at 3:55 pm, Tim Law via WAMUG  wrote:
> 
>   Good afternoon
> 
>   Not specifically Mac related
>   Ages ago I set up a Google Account and used my regular email address.
>   This happens to be a private domain under [1]com.au
>   I clearly missed something fairly important from Google a while ago and
>   they seem to have assumed all [2]com.au accounts must be businesses and
>   therefore transferred them all over onto a paid service they call
>   Workspace.
> 
>   I kept on getting messages from Google telling me to set up a payment
>   plan for my Workspace account but ignored them as I didn’t request the
>   account - as I said I clearly missed out on key message they probably
>   tried to convey. As a single user, I never saw myself as a business and
>   their messaging was very business focused and they talked about
>   managing my whole domain under Workspace - something I didn’t ask for,
>   agree to or want.
> 
>   Consequences are that I have now deleted my Workspace account, and in
>   the process have unexpectedly deleted my associated Google account,
>   plus alarmingly all the YouTube videos I have carefully crafted over
>   the years. Gone and with no way of retrieving it. :-(
> 
>   @gmail.com Google accounts are safe from their assumptions and
>   changes.
> 
>   I hope this is useful somehow.
> 
>   Tim
> 
> References


Very useful advice, even though it’s cost you a lot to discover it. I too 
discovered some time ago that the only way to avoid confusion and distress with 
dealing with anything Google online is to have a Google email address, even if 
you never use it for any other reason than for logging into Google-based sites. 

It also helps with other websites which offer OAuth access, ie, they allow you 
to create an account ot login using a Google account email address. Much easier 
if that address ends in .gmail.com.

Kind regards,

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Settings & Unsubscribe - 

[WAMUG] Gmail - a cautionary tale

[Tim Law via WAMUG]

   Good afternoon

   Not specifically Mac related
   Ages ago I set up a Google Account and used my regular email address.
   This happens to be a private domain under [1]com.au
   I clearly missed something fairly important from Google a while ago and
   they seem to have assumed all [2]com.au accounts must be businesses and
   therefore transferred them all over onto a paid service they call
   Workspace.

   I kept on getting messages from Google telling me to set up a payment
   plan for my Workspace account but ignored them as I didn’t request the
   account - as I said I clearly missed out on key message they probably
   tried to convey. As a single user, I never saw myself as a business and
   their messaging was very business focused and they talked about
   managing my whole domain under Workspace - something I didn’t ask for,
   agree to or want.

   Consequences are that I have now deleted my Workspace account, and in
   the process have unexpectedly deleted my associated Google account,
   plus alarmingly all the YouTube videos I have carefully crafted over
   the years. Gone and with no way of retrieving it. :-(

   @gmail.com Google accounts are safe from their assumptions and
   changes.

   I hope this is useful somehow.

   Tim

References

   1. http://com.au/
   2. http://com.au/
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - 
Guidelines - 
Settings & Unsubscribe -