I’ve been a part of the google ecosystem for almost two decades now. I was originally given free access to their original gmail hosted domain way way back (in 03-05?) and I’ve been there ever since, watching it grow into the god awful thing it is today. Workspace is absolutely terrible for personal use, and has been for a while now. Unfortunately, being so deeply enmeshed, it’s tough to break away.
Overall, I think I have everything I need set up between nextcloud and my host’s email system. But the big remaining hurdle is how to handle the actual loss of the “google account”. I’ve checked our accounts and they are no longer connected to other sites/services as the sole authentication, but I’m worried I’m still missing something. Yes, play store purchases will be lost, but that’s mostly inconsequential anyway.
There is just that one big nagging sensation in the back of my head that I’m forgetting something. Are there any extra steps needed before I shut the whole thing down?
I’m not going to be much help ATM, but I believe there is some Google service that allows you to use “foreign” email addresses to log in to a Google account. What that would mean is that you could move your domains away from Google but then keep the Google accounts based on those domains active.
Anyway, fingers crossed I remember about this and actually find the thing I’m taking about and get back to you later today.
I know you can register a google account with an external/non-gmail account. However, you can’t transfer the workplace accounts, or reassign them to other things. Once you close your workspace account/subscription, they’re vapor.
If there’s a way to do it, that would be fabulous, of course!