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Re:Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite ... by PenguinCoder on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:01PM (#30031080)
GMAIL is still free because of the wealth of information it gives them. Being able to scrape emails for products, services, travel etc, all help Google sell more ads.
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Re:Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite ... by dkjaudyeqooe on Friday January 21, 2022 @06:09PM (#30031146)
What's stopping them doing that with these accounts? It would be perfectly reasonable.
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Re:Google could face class action lawsuit over free G Suite ... by dwild on Saturday January 22, 2022 @01:42PM (#30039541)
The maintenance cost per user is much higher.

I also feel like this is not that much a matter of cash but mostly a matter of having to consider Legacy accounts each time they want to do anything over Google Workspace. It's just more trouble for nothing at all at the end.

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