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Google's practice of requiring Gmail addresses for user accounts is illegal, according to a German court ruling. The parent company of GMX and Web.de (Ionos) had filed a lawsuit. (www.zdfheute.de)

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[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I created by account with my own email, but they forced the addition of a gmail for some service, so my account has two different usernames.

Worse, if I use the Google account login for a third party service it will use the fucking gmail account for notifications. I only learned this after they sold their domains off to square space and I had to try and hunt down my logins again and discovered that they hadn't been moved to my square space account with the same email but had been moved to a new account they created using my Google account.

[–] DeprecatedCompatV2@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying that there's a random gmail account associated with every custom domain google account?

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Not quite, more that anyone who had a domain registered with Google may now have a Square Space account connected to their gmail address and Google account.