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Google offered custom domain support to individuals decades ago, and slowly pivoted that offering to become Google Workspace. Their systems don't differentiate between personal users with a custom domain and giant-ass corporations. As such, many Google products reject logins from custom domains until the offering is beefed-up to meet enterprise demands.

Music and Photos started this way, but eventually upgraded to allow custom domain accounts. Stadia was always gmail-only. Google One too. Home/Nest kind of works with a custom domain, but you can't share your devices with family members. There was a whole year there where it stopped allowing you to set reminders from a custom domain, and it still doesn't reliably work.

It's been a long time since I've set up a Google account - you might be able to use a non-gmail domain now and still be treated as a person (e.g. an iCloud user who wants to login to non-gmail Google products), but stay away from any sort of Workspace account as an individual.



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