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by Brajeshwar 822 days ago
For instance, there is no easy way to empty your Google Photos at one go. I had to do mine in a span of two weeks[1] and one of the key step was deleting photos "manually" via a script. I believe this tool can be used in similar situations where you set instructions for the steps to the task and let it just run.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/how-to-delete-all-photos-and-get...
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pants2 822 days ago
Similar example, Amazon disabled the ability to download your order history, leading to angry customers complaining[1] that they now have to click through item-by-item to get all of their orders for taxes or spend tracking. There are independently developed extensions[2] that do automated scraping, but they have to be actively maintained for changes in the site. A tool like LaVague would save a lot of headache for this and similar tasks.

1. https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000BMJvWOSQ1/do...

2. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/amazon-order-histor...

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Terretta 821 days ago
Does anyone know the value of preventing users from getting their own order history?

Apple also makes it nearly impossible to get full purchase history from app stores. The only place left is Music, Account, Purchases, Custom range, All Year, checkmark all types, checkmark all family members -- then it's in a tiny vertical scroll pop up with no cut and paste. With everything as IAPs, extracting 500 of these a year at 3 - 4 at a time is tedious.

Were competitive intelligence apps or browser extensions using user browser creds to surveil or surreptitiously steal entire purchase histories?

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pants2 821 days ago
It certainly seems like a reaction to Mint-like spending tracker apps which collect and sell data and purchase history from these platforms. The harder they make it to get your data out, the more they can keep that valuable data as a competitive edge.
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DanyWin 822 days ago
Very interesting indeed!

We are thinking of developing an extension that would connect the browser to LaVague so that actions can be sent to the extension and be executed locally, thus bypassing their barriers

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ukuina 822 days ago
I used your instructions two years ago for the same task! Thank you for taking the time to document it.
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