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I'll ask the question, why? You have a vague "they don't comply with our requirements", but you don't actually explain. That could be a happy to glad issue, or

by kop316 8y ago

I'll ask the question, why? You have a vague "they don't comply with our requirements", but you don't actually explain. That could be a happy to glad issue, or it could be a much bigger issue. But this announcement just sounds like the phrase from Empire " I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

mrosett 8y ago
Presumably the poster is just copy/pasting an email and isn't Google.
- pgrote 8y ago
  Correct. My apologies as I should have prefaced it with a description indicating it was an email from Google.
Spooky23 8y ago
IFTTT asks for a lot of access. Most people aren’t able to make an informed decision re what that means.
- koboll 8y ago
  AFAIK, what you do with your own data via IFTTT is entirely up to you. Is there any evidence or indication IFTTT is misusing, or could miuse it? Of course it asks for a lot of permissions -- the idea is that you can use it to replace APIs for everything.
  - pgrote 8y ago
    > Is there any evidence or indication IFTTT is misusing, or could miuse it? Of course it asks for a lot of permissions -- the idea is that you can use it to replace APIs for everything. I have not heard of anything. IFTTT recipes have really made my life nicer through automating certain things, which includes gmail interactions. It'll be a bummer if support cannot continue. I understand Google's changing of the rules, but am surprised IFTTT hasn't been in front of this change.
  - danso 8y ago
    The litmus test appears to be requirements that Google says IFTTT does not currently meet: > These apps haven’t yet complied with our updated data privacy requirements announced on October 8, 2018
  - shkkmo 8y ago
    IMHO, giving an additional third party access to your main email account which is usually the key to your entire online identify seemed like a major increase in security risks. I think Google's concern is less that IFTTT is going to hack you and more that IFTTT may not be securely handling this data and may be hacked. I would only give IFTTT access to a secondary email address that recieves specific types of emails, possibly automatically forwarded by Gmail's filtering rules.
citrablue 8y ago
Maybe they want to get in front of a possible backlash, like what happened to Facebook when it was revealed that 3rd parties you used to send messages through... had access to the messages! (gasp)

by kop316 8y ago

mrosett 8y ago

Presumably the poster is just copy/pasting an email and isn't Google.

pgrote 8y ago
Correct. My apologies as I should have prefaced it with a description indicating it was an email from Google.

Spooky23 8y ago

IFTTT asks for a lot of access. Most people aren’t able to make an informed decision re what that means.

koboll 8y ago
AFAIK, what you do with your own data via IFTTT is entirely up to you. Is there any evidence or indication IFTTT is misusing, or could miuse it? Of course it asks for a lot of permissions -- the idea is that you can use it to replace APIs for everything.
- pgrote 8y ago
  > Is there any evidence or indication IFTTT is misusing, or could miuse it? Of course it asks for a lot of permissions -- the idea is that you can use it to replace APIs for everything. I have not heard of anything. IFTTT recipes have really made my life nicer through automating certain things, which includes gmail interactions. It'll be a bummer if support cannot continue. I understand Google's changing of the rules, but am surprised IFTTT hasn't been in front of this change.
- danso 8y ago
  The litmus test appears to be requirements that Google says IFTTT does not currently meet: > These apps haven’t yet complied with our updated data privacy requirements announced on October 8, 2018
- shkkmo 8y ago
  IMHO, giving an additional third party access to your main email account which is usually the key to your entire online identify seemed like a major increase in security risks. I think Google's concern is less that IFTTT is going to hack you and more that IFTTT may not be securely handling this data and may be hacked. I would only give IFTTT access to a secondary email address that recieves specific types of emails, possibly automatically forwarded by Gmail's filtering rules.

citrablue 8y ago

Maybe they want to get in front of a possible backlash, like what happened to Facebook when it was revealed that 3rd parties you used to send messages through... had access to the messages! (gasp)