This might well be the creepiest #Google page ever: All the purchases a user has ever done. If the user receives a confirmation email for a purchase they made, the user is not notified that Google collected and displays this piece of information in this page. There is no explanation why they are collecting all the purchases in one page, and apparently there is no way to opt out of this or even delete the purchases from the list.
There is a page in the activity settings where the user can delete most data, but the purchases can only be viewed, with a link to the page I shared in the previous toot.
The description makes it look like they are collecting data only from #Google services, but they also look for emails from Amazon and Steam in the user's inbox. That description is deliberately misleading.
I'm usually careful about the permissions and the activity I allow #Google to track (which is pretty much nothing), but this somehow slipped away.
Was I distracted? (Maybe.)
Are the privacy and activity settings on Google a mess? (Yes.)
Is it something they introduced recently, and they harvested the data retroactively? (I have no reasons to say ‘no’.)
@miramarco Ughhhhhh. This is really a motivation to change my general email to something not gmail.
It's not just amazon and steam (to clarify). I've got B&N, Etsy, my uni's bookstore site. So I assume it's anything that says "purchase" in your email.
@miramarco agh. sorry.