On this subject https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
Turning off all of the controls under myactivity won't stop Google from scanning your emails to track any purchases you make. The only way to stop that is to switch off of Gmail.
Turning off all of the controls under myactivity won't stop Google from scanning your emails to track any purchases you make. The only way to stop that is to switch off of Gmail.
Are there any other 'hidden' urls to expose what other data Google is siphoning off our private transactions or conversations for that matter?
I've had all controls under activity disable a long time and periodically check to make sure they stay that way.
This one crosses the line! To the point that the only way I can get rid of the older records is to delete the purchase receipts entirely.
This link needs a thread of its own
https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1
You can then delete your google account under "data & personalization".
I've been on proton mail for a few months now and am pretty happy with it, try it out!
Because you’re attempting a highly sensitive action, we need to be sure it’s really you. At the moment, we can’t. Try again from a device you normally use (like your phone or laptop) or from the location you usually sign in from.
Learn more about verifying it's you."
No other option. Everywhere I try is the same.
Giving an Evil company like Google my data. How could I have been so naive and foolish.
If you have a non-gmail account, why are you using gmail at all?
Convenience, speed, reliability, and (above all else) excellent spam filtering.
Now going through the process of reducing all the places I use Google services. Moved my personal stuff from GCP to Digital Ocean. Gmail to Fastmail. Chrome to Firefox / Safari. Currently seeing if Zoho is a good substitute for Google Sheets and Docs.
Not sure I'll go so far as use DuckDuckGo fulltime, but maybe i'll give it another try.
Edit: apparently they do provide email export to paid users now via a new application that is in beta. I had not realized this
May switch my browser to Brave, Opera or Edge too... though there are aspects of each of them I'm not fond of. The new Edge is decent.
You should use !s instead of !g. !s sends your search to Startpage, which uses Google search but in a more privacy-protective way.
I find this feature insanely useful. Google is doing something useful with my email. I learn about delayed flights way way in advance of anyone else as a result.
So let's just be clear here: - you get an email, to you, privately - gmail used to offer making a calendar for certain keywords in an email - google will now automatically do said calendar entries - on your PRIVATE calendar btw - google will also combine real-time flight info with your flight info, and tell you useful things via PRIVATE push notifications to you only.
This whole thing is the culmination of years of singularity "the computer will expand the mind" rhetoric. It's totally privacy protecting - the calendar entries, push notifications are private.
This is what everyone has been trying to build for years. We are here. And all of a sudden it's creepy? Because they notified you a dozen times, via email they were going to do this, and you ignored it?
Email has been turned into a useful automatically actionable system. My family forwards their itineraries and I don't have do anything else, it's automatically calendared. That's probably the only reason I pick them up from the airport frankly.
Although maybe the problem is they don't know enough about my and my kids' life.
No, not everyone by a longshot.
This whole thing is the culmination of years of singularity "the computer will expand the mind" rhetoric.
This isn't your mind being expanded, this isn't you thinking new thoughts.
This is what everyone has been trying to build for years. We are here. And all of a sudden it's creepy?
Kurzweil VoicePad and Dragon Naturally Speaking tried to build Voice Recognition on-device for years and it was a bright and techno future. Then Google Now, Siri, Cortana and Alexa got people to send speech samples over the internet to a foreign, perpetual-record, datacenter. The voice recognition part is better, but now it's creepy.
Email has been turned into a useful automatically actionable system. My family forwards their itineraries and I don't have do anything else, it's automatically calendared. That's probably the only reason I pick them up from the airport frankly.
Why doesn't Google forward their itinerary to Uber and have someone else pick them up at the airport, so you don't have to be involved in your life at all?
Additionally, I can not even use the "download my data" options because it says "We can't verify it is you" and there is no way no authenticate myself.
So basically, Google really likes my data and holds it hostage.