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Google accused of pushing 'free for life' G Suite users onto paid plans

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Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum

Google is warning some long-time G Suite Legacy users that they must start paying for Workspace subscriptions or lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other core services, after the company flagged their accounts as "commercial use."

A reader alerted The Register to what appears to be a new crackdown on long-standing G Suite Legacy accounts, with similar complaints now piling up on Reddit from users accused of violating Google’s non-commercial use policy, despite insisting they use the accounts only for family email and personal domains.

Reports have been stacking up on Reddit’s r/gsuitelegacymigration subreddit from users who say their long-running personal G Suite Legacy accounts are suddenly being classified as “commercial use” accounts and pushed toward paid Google Workspace plans by May 2026.

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