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 i

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.