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Had no clue about Google storing purchases made connected to a gmail account. That is discomforting.
by magashna 7y ago
Had no clue about Google storing purchases made connected to a gmail account. That is discomforting.
- ds0 7y agoYeah, I was pretty intimidated just looking at it for the first time. Seeing my purchases in plain view like that tipped me over into using a competing mail server. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase...
- VikingCoder 7y agoYour gmail account stores the purchases. Google can help you search the purchases. If you see either of those as odd, then I pretty much don't get your viewpoint. But sure, the next question is does Google explicitly USE that data in any other way. That's a different question, though.
- magashna 7y agoit doesn't store the purchase, it stores the email, then parses it into a list of purchases. Also if you delete the email, the purchase list remains.
- inetknght 7y agoI don't need Google's help to search through my purchase emails. My emails are well-filtered into categories. And where that's not sufficient, search terms aren't difficult to use. Google automatically collecting a list of purchases goes beyond what I expect an email provider to do.
- beatgammit 7y agoPersonally, I'm not a fan of email being plaintext and think everyone should use encrypted email (GPG, ProtonMail, Tutanota, etc). I think it's absolutely inappropriate for Google to track such things even if it has access, and it shouldn't have access IMO in the first place.