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Old Aug 14, 2014 | 10:27 pm
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Karelia
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
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Originally Posted by gooselee
It pulls from gmail. Hotels, too.

Only way out is to either suppress email confirmations at booking or send them to another email address.
some of the legal brothels in Nevada send out reservation confirmation emails that look just like airline confirmation emails.(based on what I've seen on the internet) I guess Google reads those as well?

Google apparently scans airline reservation emails, regardless of what language the emails were in. I recently had a confirmation email from Lufthansa that was completely in German. Google Maps somehow managed to figure out that i had a flight from the US to Munich...

I wonder if I can bombard my own Gmail account with a bunch of random airline reservation confirmation emails to confuse it.
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