May 12, 2022
Since I have the power to move mountains, I’m going to try again.
Amazon, this is not a useful order confirmation email:
It doesn’t tell me what I ordered. So:
We’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of this change. At the time, the consensus seems to be Amazon wanting to avoid sales data being mined from mass email reading. Summed up by John Gruber:
Almost certainly they’re doing this to thwart email-scraping data harvesters from obtaining information about Amazon sales.
So we the customers are being usability-punished because of invasive privacy practices of multi-billion dollar companies. Neato. Y’all got enough money, give us useful order emails again.
Related
🤘
ncG1vNJzZmibmKe2tK%2FOsqCeql6jsrV7kWlpa2dganxyfo6mmKSdXZa6osbOp2SoqpSav26xzJqgpatdqsCmstSlZJqfkZ67cA%3D%3D