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Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by jhall1468 »

petilon wrote: post #5

I was shocked when I stumbled on this. All of my purchases, have been scraped from my emails, including every line item, where I purchased these items from and so on. If they are scraping this from my emails without my permission, what else are they scraping? What else does Google know about me? If everything in my emails is scraped by Google it is possible that they know more about me than I do about myself. Very sc…

> If they are scraping this from my emails without my permission, what else are they scraping?

YOU GAVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.

Maybe, in the future, read the TOS and Privacy Policies rather than just pressing accept and acting offended when they do EXACTLY what they said they'd do.

Had you done that, you'd also know exactly who has access to that information and, if you read when they notify you of policy updates, who will have access in the future.

Why is this so hard to understand for people? Gmail is not free, you are paying with the information gleaned from it. If you aren't ok with that, start shelling out money.

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by newnewpdro »

lunchables wrote: post #2

Am I overreacting by seriously considering starting the process of migrating from gmail? It's not this singular incident of course, but just the continued pattern of behavior from Google for the last couple years. I really have lost all faith in them respecting their users.

No, but you are reacting a very late.

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by barnaclejive »

petilon wrote: post #5

I was shocked when I stumbled on this. All of my purchases, have been scraped from my emails, including every line item, where I purchased these items from and so on. If they are scraping this from my emails without my permission, what else are they scraping? What else does Google know about me? If everything in my emails is scraped by Google it is possible that they know more about me than I do about myself. Very sc…

"without my permission"? I'd be shocked if this wasn't in the EULA you've agreed to for the service.

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by lstamour »

If they’re not doing this for advertising alone, why can I only see my personal purchases and not company ones for G Suite logins? As a small business owner this kind of data would be a fantastic API resource and a significant value-add from Gmail... I suppose I could use the purchases label, but... it’s interesting they don’t aggregate and display it the same way... thus leading me to conclude that this page is purely to share data used for advertising purposes only, and G Suite accounts don’t have Gmail ads...

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by romed »

A very good feature of gmail’s extensive “email intelligence” that grew out of Inbox. How did you think the Purchases label worked? How did you think Google Now alerts you on your mobile when your packages are delivered?

If this surprises you you’re going to be flabbergasted by how the Trips label works.

Oh yeah also Gmail and Now work together to bring you those reminders to pay your bills.

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by jhall1468 »

lunchables wrote: post #2

Am I overreacting by seriously considering starting the process of migrating from gmail? It's not this singular incident of course, but just the continued pattern of behavior from Google for the last couple years. I really have lost all faith in them respecting their users.

What do you mean by respect? Your privacy?

Move to Fastmail if that's what your after. You are using a free service, because you are the product. That's not about respect, it's about your (lack) of understanding of the business relationship you entered. If you aren't comfortable with that, you're going to have to pay actual money.

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by fitzroy »

I've always assumed they do this since they've recognized and surfaced flight and event information for years.

I thought about switching my email to iCloud but I'm afraid Apple's going to change the domain yet again. And gmail is hella reliable.

Google of old might have done something cool with this info and annotated the purchases with something like "14,391 people bought this for an average of $1.08 less" or "you pay $7.44 per month more than the average Comcast customer in your area" etc.

Re: See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations

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Post by browsercoin »

at first I was disturbed by the title but upon arriving at that page I panicked....

I may be a financially illiterate person....fuck Pokerstars and their $500 spin & gos.

I would've never seen this without having a comprehensive look at all my online purchases....I didn't realize how reckless I was with money....damn it

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