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They started this BS a few years ago... At the time they were going to totally remove the program, and finally backed off from that stance if you agreed to use only for non business purposes. Horse was outta the barn though, a lot of people migrated away.
The thing is, Google very clearly and purposefully marketed this as a free for life program to get your family domains on there in return for earning credibility with IT influencers and decision makers. If they remove this program, they'll burn that goodwill (if any is left, lol) and frankly should return all of the value they got from scanning our data for the past 20 years or so which was a known part of the "free for life" trade.
I'm degoogling as fast as possible and have all except some family members off Gsuite so far.
Immich Nextcloud My own postfix email server (I'm a super nerd) Thunderbird and rainloop email clients Duckduckgo is default everywhere and use searxing in some cases Also have a pihole doing dns blocking of Google's junk and ublock origin on all home pcs
I don't have a great replacement for YouTube yet. Actually I subscribe to YouTube premium because I feel like that at least gets creators paid
These are a few of the ways I've handled it
Yeah, I got the "This isn't free anymore" email a few years ago about my GSuite account. I switched to Proton, then they followed up with the "Well, if you aren't using it for business you can keep it". Too late Google. I'm happy with the move. Thankfully my primary Google account on my phone wasn't that GSuite account, so I didn't have to worry about Play Store or YouTube.
I also switched from Google Photos to Immich because Google was deciding I was using too much space and wanted me to pay a subscription, despite them offering the same amount of free space for over a decade as storage prices have plummeted. I guess the value of mining my data has bottomed out and now they want my cash and data. Well, now they get neither.