Ok, that's is strange! Thank you for this! On the list you can check the little (!) icon and find out, how google got the information. In my case two order items was extracted directly from gmail.
The bigger question is why Google is reading and extracting this data from my email id? I don't feel safe and secure. God knows what else they are reading from my mailbox.
Unfortunately that's pretty much the deal with a free gmail account. If you don't want them to do it, pay for a business account (maybe?) or pay for an account somewhere else.
Mining your email for keywords and selling you things has been part of their business for a long time. Knowing what you've actually bought is just part of that.
When I purchase a product, Google can track that package if it detects tracking info.
When I book a flight, Google notifies me when the flight is leaving, providing suggestions about when to leave my house in order to make it.
All of these things can be done from reading your email. For someone invested in the Google ecosystem, this is a nice and seamless integration that helps me in my life. That is why they are extracing data from your mail.
I've appreciated at times that they do this for things like delivery tracking numbers. I just stick "my orders" in google and it gives me a listing including any updated delivery statuses.
The purpose is to provide personalized useful features like package tracking. When logged in, you can search for something like "my packages" or "where are my packages". This is a feature that users expect from other assistants (e.g. Amazon Alexa) and email clients (e.g. Outlook).
The categories that are being extracted for personalized search should be fairly limited (primarily hotels, flights, online purchases).
If you don't feel safe or secure using Google products, you should strongly consider switching away. I personally would suggest Outlook.com, but you could also self-host or use an indie hosting provider like FastMail.
(Most product folks make trade-offs for the average person. There are some great security tech coming out of Google (Security Keys, Chromebooks/Chrome OS) but a lot of the security assumes at least moderate trust in Google.)
I saw that today and though the same thing, looks like they are getting it from email but I do wish I could limit what I let google link to these kinda things.
This site, in the last couple of years has changed to be run by old mods from /r/incels. Basic comments like "you don't want google to read your email, don't use their email" will are informative, wanted, and upvoted. People who know nothing about a subject or have never worked with a product responding with authoritative advice, being condescending to experts in the field, get upvoted. Pointing out things like this, or replying with disagreement to a mod gets your comments shadow deleted, and your account shadow banned, so the mod can feel power - power he lacks in his social and professional life.
If you care about what these idiot mods say and karma, have multiple accounts and upvote yourself with a script. Or do what I do - have a whole slew of accounts all pre-logged in to multiple browsers, and say what any normal person would say, then just have a script recreate them every 6 months.
and the idiots who keep posting guidelines, like the one who just replied to you? there's nothing you can do. your life is punishment enough. go cry in alone bed before it collapses from your weight.
Anecdotal, but when I visit my mom, I make sure we sit down to make sure she's being safe on the internet. Last time I visited, I used that link to double check she knows what she's subscribed to. To her and my surprise, I found a second Netflix account with 4 people on it under her email (but fortunately not her credit card). Looks like someone with a similar first and last name accidentally used her email for the account. I cancelled the account, but it's concerning that Netflix never sent a confirmation email to make sure they actually owned that email.
I get email from Amazon that is intended for a different person whose Gmail address merely includes mine as a prefix. I emailed Amazon about it but the ignored me.
You cannot make more than few cents using Google Adsense. You are being rude here. He is sharing a credible information here. With the adsense amount I'm pretty sure he can't buy coffee also..get it right?
I'm fairly certain everyone with a gmail account, agreed to this behavior, I think its unnerving to see it categorized like this, they haven't been underhanded about this (not to say companies haven't been underhanded), or hiding it in anyway.
Too many people seem to skip reading what they are agreeing to, and then get upset when the company does what they agreed to allow them to.
> During a Census (the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population) I willingly share my personal details such as Name, Age, Gender, Employment Status, Salary details to the agency so that they can take a better decision in providing the government schemes and services like how many new roads to be built, Town Planning, Employment Generation etc.
If you don't willingly the government can compel you to by force. The census is not a good example of voluntary information giving which is why its questions are a contentious political issue.
I've closed my google account (and moved to proton) because I noticed this "feature". Of course, the positions are disappearing once mail gets deleted but google didn't ask me if I want this or had my permission to fetch data and prepare such list, not mention I don't find it in any way useful.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 71.2 ms ] threadMining your email for keywords and selling you things has been part of their business for a long time. Knowing what you've actually bought is just part of that.
When I book a flight, Google notifies me when the flight is leaving, providing suggestions about when to leave my house in order to make it.
All of these things can be done from reading your email. For someone invested in the Google ecosystem, this is a nice and seamless integration that helps me in my life. That is why they are extracing data from your mail.
If you are a merchant, there are standards for sending package/order information in a machine-readable way in email:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/overview
The purpose is to provide personalized useful features like package tracking. When logged in, you can search for something like "my packages" or "where are my packages". This is a feature that users expect from other assistants (e.g. Amazon Alexa) and email clients (e.g. Outlook).
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1710607
The categories that are being extracted for personalized search should be fairly limited (primarily hotels, flights, online purchases).
If you don't feel safe or secure using Google products, you should strongly consider switching away. I personally would suggest Outlook.com, but you could also self-host or use an indie hosting provider like FastMail.
(Most product folks make trade-offs for the average person. There are some great security tech coming out of Google (Security Keys, Chromebooks/Chrome OS) but a lot of the security assumes at least moderate trust in Google.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you care about what these idiot mods say and karma, have multiple accounts and upvote yourself with a script. Or do what I do - have a whole slew of accounts all pre-logged in to multiple browsers, and say what any normal person would say, then just have a script recreate them every 6 months.
and the idiots who keep posting guidelines, like the one who just replied to you? there's nothing you can do. your life is punishment enough. go cry in alone bed before it collapses from your weight.
How's that for your guidelines?
Site has Google ads that are tailored using Google's analytics, so site owner IS profiting off of visitors' personal data.
I don't think I'm being rude. I only presented a fact.
> He is sharing a credible information here.
Absolutely. But he then undermines his own credibility by trying to make money in the manner he criticizes others for doing so.
> With the adsense amount I'm pretty sure he can't buy coffee also..get it right?
Author never drew this distinction; I presume they feel profiting off of personal information is the problem, not the amount.
Too many people seem to skip reading what they are agreeing to, and then get upset when the company does what they agreed to allow them to.
If you don't willingly the government can compel you to by force. The census is not a good example of voluntary information giving which is why its questions are a contentious political issue.