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.
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?
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.
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
1. https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D56Q0000BMJvWOSQ1/do...
2. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/amazon-order-histor...