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Re:Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by Alterlife on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:30AM (#18390764)
This is true for all google cloud services. You have to enter a credit card number. You may 'intend' to use just 20$ a month and I believe you can set quota alerts, but you can't set a hard budget. Google will just bill for whatever you consumed.

I think that's ridiculous. It should deal-breaker problem for anyone running on a side project.

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Re:Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by amelius on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:34AM (#18390803)
Can't you use a throwaway/generated credit-card?
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Re:Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by JoshGlazebrook on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:36AM (#18390821)
Privacy.com and other virtual cards register as prepaid cards and are blocked by google.
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Re:Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by amelius on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @08:53AM (#18390932)
That sucks. If inflexibility already shows at the entrance, then I'm not going to enter the place.
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Re:Migrating away from Google Maps and cutting costs by existencebox on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:35AM (#18392496)
Hey, just to chime in. I'm a MSFTie, so no relevence to G, but have worked on products with similar limitations, and was usually the one arguing _against_ the CC friction at login.

What has become abundantly clear however is that CC gating is a fast way to reduce your malicious traffic _exponentially_; and especially if you're enterprise focused, this doesn't even impact your core strata much.

As a non-corporate-techie in my off-work-time, I absolutely understand the frustration at this inflexibility. During my day job where I'd have to clean up the fires that result from a fully open door policy however? I'd have a somewhat different take.

It's not 100% clear cut "the CC is all just to add spurious friction", is all I mean to say :)

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