Your Amazon orders, Square purchases, and Seamless lunches. Pretty much everything you buy online as well as in-store purchases where you opt to have your receipt emailed; all of this is collated in your Purchases history; saved and mined by Google.
The company says this is done to help you track your purchases, and not to help them to produce those targetted ads you receive. Still, the level of detail being culled will surprise you.
This unheralded (read: sneaky) feature can’t be turned off and there is no method to erase your entire purchase history. You can, however, selectively delete items from it.
(like that ‘Best of David Hasselhoff ‘ album you thought you had to get)
To see and delete items from your Purchases history
- Navigate to your Purchases Page: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
- Click an item to display more Details on that purchase
- To delete, click Remove Item
with special thanks to Di, recipient of said album
Cheers!
quincy
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