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Google is aware of you making purchases
- skilled 8y agoDamn, that's a lot of pizza I had in 16/17. The purchase history seems sparse though, a lot of missing purchases, even from repeat sites.
- nsarafa 8y agoyeah captures a surprisingly small sample size of my purchase receipts
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoI've been migrating my email archive off of Gmail gradually, because Gmail's proprietary behavior makes doing so programmatically annoyingly unreliable. I used the Purchases tab to ensure all of my receipts were migrated off/deleted. After reaching the "no purchases" point, and then returning a few months later, more purchases had shown up. It appears that there is some sort of manual template work being done to pick up details from common order emails. So they've at times added new stores it can parse the emails from, or more versions of their emails. And there's funny bugs too, like items where you got a pre-order price guarantee from Amazon that resulted in a small refund... will lead to the purchases tab saying the item was returned.
- merricksb 8y agoDiscussed 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090590
- yourduskquibble 8y agoIs it surprising that data that we provide and passes through Google's services are being mined? News at 11. Many may find this shocking or upsetting however I personally find Google Timeline[1] creepier than this set of data. [1]https://www.google.com/maps/timeline https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
- ardy42 8y ago> News at 11. It's film at 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_at_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_at_11