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Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations by olliej on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:05AM (#18090974)
Yes. A better question would be “why does google itself need this information when it’s just a client side UI feature?”
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Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations by blihp on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:12AM (#18091014)
Because... Google's business model. Your ability to see your purchase history on a Google page is neat, but it seems a safe bet that the real reason they want your purchase history is because their profile about you as a set of eyeballs becomes more valuable allowing them to charge higher rates on ads. Notice that they only claimed to have stopped scraping gmail for ad targeting purposes, not that they stopped scraping period.
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Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations by tyler_larson on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:19AM (#18098825)
Gmail's primary UI is a web browser. How... how do you think that _actually_ might work?
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