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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by three_seagrass on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:57AM (#23936259)
I can almost guarantee it's to get you to click back into the store for re-engagement.
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by Hokusai on Friday July 24, 2020 @03:30AM (#23936734)
> I can almost guarantee it's to get you to click back into the store for re-engagement.

Yes. I saw that while in China. I would get push notifications from Gmail and I was able to know what was the mail about without access to Gmail. But, for Facebook I would only get "You got a message". And that was totally unhelpful. Now, I knew that I had a message that I was not able to access too. Seriously infuriating.

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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by Corrado on Friday July 24, 2020 @10:10AM (#23939704)
I think it can be for both giving less data to Google and to get you to re-engage at Amazon.
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by three_seagrass on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:21PM (#23942060)
Nope. Google hasn't been mining gmail emails since 2017.
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