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Your 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 viewpo
by VikingCoder 7y ago
Your 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.