Google News removing magazines, including the ones you paid for, in December

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Headline omits details to promote outrage.

> Ahead of the December 18 shutdown, users will be able to export copies of paid magazines. Magazines that cannot be exported due to interactive elements will be eligible for a refund.

> In Google News, only a handful of people access magazines each month since new magazine purchases stopped being available in 2020. The few remaining subscribers have time to download their previously purchased magazine subscriptions or to get a refund for any interactive subscriptions.

A month's notice still sucks though.

So if you've purchased hundreds of these you have to go through and export them all individually? You can't just download a zip of PDF's or something?

This is why I prefer my content on my own devices, not in someone else's cloud.

An actual sensible shutdown would involve creating a folder in each user's Google Drive with the exports Google is making people do by hand. Google's approach would be poor behavior if Google was dying which they are not.

Is it because Google wants to sell their own news or for mlre tight information control?

It's because it's Google and everything they touch dies.

Yet another reason to just pirate everything. That way, the company running things can't arbitrarily decide to delete your pirated content.

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