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0 pointspmontra5y ago0 comments

> Changing from Gmail isn't easy because of all the other services and logins associated with it.

You can keep the Gmail account and start using a new one somewhere else. You start registering to new services with your new account and gradually migrate old services to it if they let you. You end up with gmail for social logins (which hopefully you can migrate too) and little else.

I do have a Gmail account. I use it to login in Google when I work for a customer which use the Google Cloud, when I have to upload videos to YouTube (I logout after that) and for Google Play.

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_jal5y ago· 2 in thread

> You start registering to new services with your new account and gradually migrate old services

Try doing this with with thousands of employees with multiple devices and varying computer skills, at the same time, while keeping a business running. Don't forget to factor in multiple 2FA systems, that you also have more service accounts than you probably think, and that your spam filters will change behaviors (for that added bit of uncertainty).

Helpdesk needs valium, badly

kbenson5y ago

Congratulations, you've identified a market need. If someone builds a tool to do all this (if the market isn't saturated with them already), companies will pay for it. There's plenty of tools to convert to/from Microsoft Active Directory deployments or varying quality, I don't see why Google should be any different.

pmontraOP5y ago

If a company married Google or any other similar service provider I expect that the migration in case of divorce is going to be expensive. For a single person not so much.

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