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by cmsj 1184 days ago
A Googler explained it to me once - it's something like as if the Workspace accounts are on a completely different instance of Google, and supporting both in an app is surprisingly hard.

Still, after all this time the geniuses at Google kinda ought to have solved this :)

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> Still, after all this time the geniuses at Google kinda ought to have solved this :)

It won't be solved until the day Google stops selling ads. Regular Google accounts are designed to vacuum up any useful user data and use it to improve Google services in any way Google chooses, and they may update the terms with a EULA updates. Workspace accounts are the opposite: user data is controlled by the account admin, and agreement is not with individual users, but their org.

Beta releases work well when information can be freely gathered and reported upstream. The nature and class of information collected may change over time, and is not covered under Workspaces agreements