> 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.
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.
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 17.7 ms ] thread> 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.
A month's notice still sucks though.
This is why I prefer my content on my own devices, not in someone else's cloud.