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Ding a dong every hour when you pick a flower
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Elfstedentocht?
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Ok, say when
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Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy — and it’s hard to delete
“To help you easily view and keep track of your purchases, bookings and subscriptions in one place, we’ve created a private destination that can only be seen by you,” a Google spokesperson told CNBC. “You can delete this information at any time. We don’t use any information from your Gmail messages to serve you ads, and that includes the email receipts and confirmations shown on the Purchase page.”
But there isn’t an easy way to remove all of this. You can delete all the receipts in your Gmail inbox and archived messages. But, if you’re like me, you might save receipts in Gmail in case you need them later for returns. There is no way to delete them from Purchases without also deleting them from Gmail -- when you click on the “Delete” option in Purchases, it simply guides you back to the Gmail message.
Google’s privacy page says that only you can view your purchases. But it says “Information about your orders may also be saved with your activity in other Google services ” and that you can see and delete this information on a separate “My Activity” page.Except you can’t. Google’s activity controls page doesn’t give you any ability to manage the data it stores on Purchases.
So they have advanced parsing systems and dark patterns !
Google Sales-- We need to find out what our gmail users are buying and sell this data.
Gmail Developers -- Done
Caveat Emptor.
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Gmail is a free service, and you will remember what that means:
Quote: If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
Somewhere in the T&C's you agreed to when you signed up for an account will be you giving them the rights to do what they want with the data others send you. You did read them before you ticked the box and pressed that button, didn't you?
Do I use Gmail? No - I have my own domain, and provide my own email services. This costs me a small amount every year, as part of the hosting package.
As a result, following the page link to "Purchases" in the article you reference gives me "You don't have any Purchases" and a picture of a cat in a box.
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Who hosts your domain Griff ? I use 123-reg but have issues with email - the nameservers change for no apparent reason occassionaly resulting in no email service
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Arvixe - but I can't really recommend them, the tech support is terrible (think several days to get back to you) and scheduled tasks can get forgotten (I have a couple running every hour and they often skip 5 or so runs).
Used to be good and cheap, but they got taken over by EIG and "streamlined" into their pathetic service organisation. I may move next time the renewal is due.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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They all seem to deteriorate after you've been with them a while, I would like to change from 123-reg but I don't want to lose my domain name ( I don't use it for a website just for email purposes )
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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you can't transfer your domain name? why not?
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Don't know how ? not clued up with web stuff
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I too don't use gmail and have not signed it's TOS agreement. Fat lot of good it does. If I send mail to gmail users I'm still be logged and chomped and otherwise digested by correlations amongst them. The only pain I can stick up their ass is I have a very large number of email address, thanks to the blessings of several catch-alls.
But - sign and agree or not, once you interact with them, and similar sites, they'll short even know your condom size.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: short even know your condom size Er...
Software Zen: delete this;
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That would be a good target for a large scale class action perhaps. If they are collecting data on people who have never given them permission to.
Explorans limites defectum
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The Blizzard orders are super mis-parsed, they still have some work to do.
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Only a single Amazon purchase show up there... Not a very good material to sell...
(I have several other Amazon and eBay purchases too)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It shows some purchases from 2013, then a lot of nothing, and then something from March.
Of course they're not collecting this data just because it might be helpful for me, they're selling it or otherwise using it for their own profit.
Or perhaps Sundar wants to be cool like me so he collects my purchase history to see what stuff he has to buy to be more like me
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Sander Rossel wrote: Or perhaps Sundar wants to be cool like me so he collects my purchase history to see what stuff he has to buy to be more like me
LOL - he wouldn't want to see through my purchase history. There, he's been warned.
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similar to OG, I've got a personal domain.
but I also do have gmail, hotmail, yahoo and other more obscure ones. (yeah these days they ask for a phone number to confirm/reset the passwords blah blah.. but are often satisfied with another email address to use for that.)
purchases, personal, work, banking, govt (i.e. tax) and any other serious email goes through my own domain. Locally hosted. (Singapore does have some damn good privacy regulations AND they're not scared to go after and punish hard anyone abusing the rules.)
gmail for google/tube, hotmail for ms (i.e. vis studio reg), ... various free accounts for stupid annoying "must sign-up" sites ... 'private/no tracking' search engines - even then spread between a few
so gmail, hotmail, yahoo ... track away, the power be with you
- they get little if any idea what I really do, use, look for, buy...
- some of them accounts not bothered to look in the inbox for months/years
.... plenty of useless food for their message analyzers.
.... so go ahead google etc, suggest away, highly likely won't ever see them good ideas
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"Advertising company tracks purchase history - News at 11"
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Don't use Gmail! Problem solved!
No need to thank me, the bill is in the mail!
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- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Wow, that's a surprise. Another smashing good one from CNBC.
/S
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abmv wrote: So they have advanced parsing systems and dark patterns Dark patterns? It's a business that makes money (and damn good money, at that) off their users. What did you expect from a free service?
Solution: don't use Gmail. No, really.
/ravi
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Google knows about me that I'm a 73 year old woman living with my 14 children in the outskirts of Paraburdoo WA, but strangely have a PO Box in Sydney CBD, and another PO box in the 'burbs of Melbourne where I ship my items to.
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