@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread:
@accalia Iâm almost afraid to ask but what happened?
I am all for giving Google what it deserves but if weâre going to break out the big toys, I feel like the full accounting of its âdo noall the evilâ is necessary. Just to be sure we break out the correctly sized toys you understand.
oh nothing much.....
just fitbit deciding all of a sudden that i MUST right this minute upgrade my email based fitbit account into a google backed account or no more logging for me, no watch integration, nothing.
no problem. i'll use the account that i've had for over a decade and is the one all my email is is, it's the one that pays for fitbit premium, it's the one i do *EVERYTHING with.
oh. yes problem. it's a google workspace account. which is a google account except i can't use it for ANY service that didn't exist when i signed up for workspaces for reason and i can't migrate the account back to a normal gmail account because i use a custom domain. and in any case even if i didn't i couldnt' because you can't migrate a google account.
so i have to create a new google account that exists only for fitbit becuase i CAN'T USE THE ACCOUNT I ALREADY HAVE until i link it to a google account and I CANNOT USE THE GOOGLE ACCOUNT THAT I ALREADY HAVE because it's "the wrong type of account"
and i can't even say "no thank you i'll keep using my email and password based" account because IT JUST DECIDED I NEEDED TO "UPGRADE" RIGHT NOW
Fuck Google.
Fuck them with the biggest, rustiest, most disease infested dildo you have.