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See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations
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#52This is one of my favorite features of Inbox. Sounds like more transparency is required but overall this is pretty nice to have.
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#53A 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.
Why can't this be done offline?
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#54I kind of like this. It's already in my email, which they host. I don't see why I should not want this feature, where they aggregate helpful information for me.
Because it stays even if you delete the email
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#55Is there actually anyone on HN that is surprised by this?
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#56Hasn't gmail done this since their 2004 beta release? There was even opposition to it at the time. https://www.privacyrights.org/blog/thirty-one-privacy-and-ci...
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#57I'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 p…
> "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.
This is not how it works. More like "we see you desperately need something because of your circumstances and we offer you only the premium price". Not explicitly of course.
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#58When I first read this was I was troubled, and I am certainly a Google critic, but it seems to specifically say this is for your usage only. It's not being used for their ad network or for them to see behavior. It's used in the same manner as tracking packages, etc. If or when they start using this for their own internal usage to see use purchasing behavior, and telling adwords customers what purchase/products were p…
If a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. So today you don't see a major problem. Even though every single purchase you made in your entire life is being logged in a central database that's out of your control. OK. You are slowly being brought to a boil, and you're not perceiving the danger.
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#59Duh, they host your email and are easily the best functionality- and reliability-wise email provider. For free, yet the money has to come from somewhere. It's hard to find paying email provider matching the Gmail.
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#60Am 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.
What assurances do you have that those paid services are actually respecting your privacy? It wasn’t that long ago that we found out that telecom companies were selling fine location data of all their paying customers.
The reality is that irresponsibility and disrespect for users are rampant in the tech world. That’s entirely companies’ doing.