Sounds noble but if google are at the helm then that's the opposite of what I want.
I'm not Amazons biggest fan but Google are the last people on earth I'd want to have my purchase history.
Yeah they look all corporate good with their no commission / seller first attitude but it's just another data harvesting excersize & I'd rather not buy at all than buy through Google for 'free'.
I noticed Amazon has stopped informing you what you actually purchased in their confirmation emails (though the emails still have other purchase suggestions in them). I'm guessing that might be partially to prevent the info from being conveyed to Google in Gmail.
> 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.
Precisely why I don't use Gmail. I know that most people I correspond with use Gmail, so it's somewhat pointless, but at least my use of Protonmail adds some friction to the system when I use it for buying stuff.
I feel the same way. I am happy to do little things to push back on surveillance capitalism.
Of topic, but the ProtonMail service just keeps getting better and better. I just tried Hey email for about 5 days, really liked the pretty UI, but it felt good to switch back to ProtonMail.
I use ProtonMail but most of my email is with people who are on gmail. Oh well.
I know it would be very niche but it would be interesting to see an online store built around Signal, or something similar (assuming a proper privacy policy on not monetizing your data).
That would be cool for donations too. I often would like to compensate software devs or content creators, but I hate having to create an account and/or share credit card info.
I think someone mentioned "burner" cards a while back.
But you still need stuff to be delivered, which means they have your name and address, along with contact information, which can be used to match your purchase history,
If I was Amazon I wouldn't be selling purchase history to Google. Why would I ? I have no need of the money and Google is one of the few entities that present a visible threat to my well being.
I'm not Amazons biggest fan but Google are the last people on earth I'd want to have my purchase history.
Yeah they look all corporate good with their no commission / seller first attitude but it's just another data harvesting excersize & I'd rather not buy at all than buy through Google for 'free'.