How to view and delete your purchase history on Google

One news that has rebounded these days on all the tech sites is the discovery that Google is monitoring your purchases, but this is not new. The mechanisms for gathering information that Google does using Gmail have been active for some time, with the facilitation of being able to view things like shipping details on the Google assistant screen on smartphones. Since I have never talked about it here, let's see how to see the purchase history that is made online, how Google records this data, how it can be useful and also how to delete and deactivate this history if you do not want Google to know all that we buy.
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How Google Gets Online Shopping Information "> // myaccount.google.com/purchases
By clicking on one of the items in the list, you can see the details of the order and shipping, with the estimated date for arrival at home and also the price.
By pressing on the lowercase i that you see in the detail card of each purchase or booking you can read from where this information was taken, which in most cases is Gmail. From the box that appears, you can click the link to open the email from which the information was extracted.
This history can be useful not only to have an orderly summary of expenses made, but also to track shipments and see the dates of receipt of products on the fly in one place, even if purchases were made on different sites and stores. In this way, for example, you can plan detailed tax deductions for the year without going crazy looking for receipts in the various stores.

Can you prevent Google from keeping your purchase history?

In case you are not interested in having this type of purchase history at all or if you don't like the idea that Google can record all this personal data, there is nothing you can do to prevent it. While in fact it is possible to open a tab and then press the Remove purchase button at the bottom, there is instead, at least for the moment, an option that disables this function of scanning and saving Email from Gmail (in fact in the management page of the Google activity doesn't show your purchase history)
There is not even a way to clear the entire purchase history, they can only be removed individually as seen above.
The only way to delete all the purchases from the history page would be to delete the order confirmation emails, which could take time and patience or be completely discouraging.
The only real option to escape the Google Purchases page would be to not use Gmail. If you make this drastic choice, to be sure not to happen in another online service that records and read emails, you can configure, as an email address for receiving receipts on online shopping sites such as Amazon, secure secure mail services and anonymous end-to-end encryption such as ProtonMail.
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