I have been using TeamViewer free license (in full compliance) for many years now. Recently there are a host of new security measures required now that make it a PITA. But that is not really the worst.
My TeamViewer usage has somehow been designated "commercial activity" requiring a paid license. I have used TeamViewer like fewer than 8 times per YEAR. I don't think I've ever logged more than 12 hours cumulatively, in any one year. In the past six months, I used it about three hours to help a friend. The remote computers are always the same handful of PCs used by the friends or family that I help from time to time. Not like 30 different devices, more like six tops. Not six different ones every month. Like six different ones over a two or three year period.
It seems I'm not alone. There are so many related postings on TeamViewer community forums, they had to merge them into a couple threads which are locked down. Only thing that makes sense is TeamViewer has tightened up their alloted 'free' usage so much that it basically amounts to a trial of TeamViewer that you cannot actually use.
When I try to use the help guides, I get redirected to 'you are not authorized to view this content', even though I'm logged in. So no help guides for free users, too.
Any good alternatives?
My TeamViewer usage has somehow been designated "commercial activity" requiring a paid license. I have used TeamViewer like fewer than 8 times per YEAR. I don't think I've ever logged more than 12 hours cumulatively, in any one year. In the past six months, I used it about three hours to help a friend. The remote computers are always the same handful of PCs used by the friends or family that I help from time to time. Not like 30 different devices, more like six tops. Not six different ones every month. Like six different ones over a two or three year period.
It seems I'm not alone. There are so many related postings on TeamViewer community forums, they had to merge them into a couple threads which are locked down. Only thing that makes sense is TeamViewer has tightened up their alloted 'free' usage so much that it basically amounts to a trial of TeamViewer that you cannot actually use.
When I try to use the help guides, I get redirected to 'you are not authorized to view this content', even though I'm logged in. So no help guides for free users, too.
Any good alternatives?
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