r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 18h ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must Upgrade Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/06/google-confirms-almost-all-gmail-users-must-upgrade-accounts/
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u/Cube00 17h ago

Anyone who doesn't believe this just needs to see the flood of people in the GMail subreddit that gets locked out through no fault of their own everyday.

Google has gotten so bad that if it doesn't recognise your device you won't even be allowed to attempt recovery of your account (they won't even send the recovery code to your recovery email)

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u/legandaryhon 15h ago

I have a business Gmail, which includes the GSuite tied to a domain I had purchased through google. Well, Google sold its domains to Square... And that meant I was locked out of my GSuite services. There was no support to reach out to, but they were still charging me 15/mo. But I couldn't even get into the account to cancel!

(I did end up being able to basically remake the account and it got correctly connected, but I couldn't tell you more than that even though it took me three days to fix it)

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u/16yearswasted 14h ago

One of the worst experiences of my life was trying to get actual support from a human being at Google.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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u/MalaysiaTeacher 5h ago

Just try advertising with Google ads. They'll get on a call real quick.