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i tried to subscribe to the family plan, but YT says that we can't because we have google workspace accounts. ...so back to blocking ads, i guess...

by glonq 3y ago

mrweasel 3y ago
We ran into that as well, it's such a weird restriction, because I can sign in to YouTube with a workspace account perfectly fine.
e40 3y ago
Incredibly annoying. I have Google Fi and a year of free YTP, which I attached to a free gmail account, which is not fun because I have all my subs and history on the workspace account... and there's no way to transfer subs/history. There are projects to do it but they are 1) old and 2) work by "watching" all the videos! Crazy. It's clear Google allows export of user's YT data only to satisfy some checkbox somewhere. It's not at all useful.
Ferret7446 3y ago
Workspace is for corporate/enterprise not consumer, so it makes sense to not allow family plans.
- gareim 3y ago
  Years ago, it was just called Google Apps and was for bringing your own domain. It was even advertised as something that would be good for family usage. And in the legacy GSuite migration debacle a couple years back, they acknowledged that there are legacy users that were/are using it for families and that it would continue to be free (after months of uncertainty). I have considered paying for YouTube Premium for the family, but I can't unless I create dual identities for all my family members and have them use both accounts on all their devices.
- nunez 3y ago
  It is NOW, not when many of us created these accounts ages ago. (We were paying customers back then too!) Back then, you paid Google to use your own domain and to unsubscribe to data collection, I think.
nunez 3y ago
I got super angry over that years ago when I tried to use my Workspace account with Nest. I had to create a separate Google consumer account in the end to work around that. It was really frustrating, and I'm still upset about it.

i tried to subscribe to the family plan, but YT says that we can't because we have google workspace accounts. ...so back to blocking ads, i guess...

by glonq 3y ago

i tried to subscribe to the family plan, but YT says that we can't because we have google workspace accounts. ...so back to blocking ads, i guess...

mrweasel 3y ago

We ran into that as well, it's such a weird restriction, because I can sign in to YouTube with a workspace account perfectly fine.

e40 3y ago

Incredibly annoying. I have Google Fi and a year of free YTP, which I attached to a free gmail account, which is not fun because I have all my subs and history on the workspace account... and there's no way to transfer subs/history. There are projects to do it but they are 1) old and 2) work by "watching" all the videos! Crazy. It's clear Google allows export of user's YT data only to satisfy some checkbox somewhere. It's not at all useful.

Ferret7446 3y ago

Workspace is for corporate/enterprise not consumer, so it makes sense to not allow family plans.

gareim 3y ago
Years ago, it was just called Google Apps and was for bringing your own domain. It was even advertised as something that would be good for family usage. And in the legacy GSuite migration debacle a couple years back, they acknowledged that there are legacy users that were/are using it for families and that it would continue to be free (after months of uncertainty). I have considered paying for YouTube Premium for the family, but I can't unless I create dual identities for all my family members and have them use both accounts on all their devices.
nunez 3y ago
It is NOW, not when many of us created these accounts ages ago. (We were paying customers back then too!) Back then, you paid Google to use your own domain and to unsubscribe to data collection, I think.

nunez 3y ago

I got super angry over that years ago when I tried to use my Workspace account with Nest. I had to create a separate Google consumer account in the end to work around that. It was really frustrating, and I'm still upset about it.