Received via email:
Hello,
Since 2020, new purchases of magazines have not been available in Google News and very few users now regularly access their magazine subscriptions. We wanted to inform you that support for magazine content in Google News is being discontinued beginning on December 18, 2023, which means access from Google News apps or news.google.com to the library of magazines you previously purchased or subscribed to will be removed. To continue to access previously purchased magazine content, you must export and save each purchased issue before December 18, 2023.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
On the one hand: sucks for people that used this, on the other hand: you couldn’t purchase for the last 3 years already AND they offer a clean way of keeping your purchases by downloading it.
So, while Google makes a lot of questionable decisions, I think this is okay as far as things go.
I feel sorry for any poor soul that ever decided to use that in the first place. I mean… really 🤣