Google “mandatory” news spam
"Important updates to Google News & Weather
Google News & Weather is being replaced with the new Google News, available to download on iOS and Android."
and then bla bla details bla. With 2 "call to action" buttons to install the new app.
At the bottom, "You received this mandatory email service announcement to let you know about important changes to Google News & Weather."
It's authentically from Google.
I have never once installed or used the Google News and/or Weather apps. Google should infer this since they've never seen a login cookie from me. Even if I had, certainly the normal app upgrade process should be sufficient, yes?
Why does Google need to push this so hard that they send unwanted spam to their paying customers? Reminds me of when they broke their own rule of home page advertising to push chromebooks.
In a word, disgusting.