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  • Is Google News' local news broken right now?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 4 15:15:45 2019
    Hello.

    From http://news.google.com's home page without being logged in both of my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 and Firefox v69.0.2 web browsers in two different old computers (mac OS Sierra v10.12.6 and 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 with all of their updates) on the same cable ISP, I clicked on its "Your local news" but it no longer shows my local news. What happened? I don't want to add anything and log in. It used to show my local news based on my location. :(

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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  • From bje@ripco.com@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Oct 5 12:39:47 2019
    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:

    From http://news.google.com's home page without being logged in both of my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 and Firefox v69.0.2 web browsers in two different old computers (mac OS Sierra v10.12.6 and 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 with all of their updates) on the same cable ISP, I clicked on its "Your local news" but it no longer shows my local news. What happened? I don't want to add anything and log
    in. It used to show my local news based on my location. :(



    Well, according to this:

    https://support.google.com/googlenews/answer/9256668?ref_topic=9006244&hl=en&authuser=0

    It clearly says:

    Note: This feature is only available if you're signed in to your Google Account.

    So I'd guess they changed something if it was working before.

    -bruce
    bje@ripco.com

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to bje@ripco.com on Sat Oct 5 19:18:08 2019
    bje@ripco.com wrote:
    Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:

    From http://news.google.com's home page without being logged in both of my SeaMonkey v2.49.5 and Firefox v69.0.2 web browsers in two different old computers (mac OS Sierra v10.12.6 and 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 with all of their updates) on the same cable ISP, I clicked on its "Your local news" but it no
    longer shows my local news. What happened? I don't want to add anything and log
    in. It used to show my local news based on my location. :(



    Well, according to this:

    https://support.google.com/googlenews/answer/9256668?ref_topic=9006244&hl=en&authuser=0

    It clearly says:

    Note: This feature is only available if you're signed in to your Google Account.

    So I'd guess they changed something if it was working before.

    Thanks. Bah. That's lame. :(
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