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This is why Amazon stopped mentioning the product name in shipping confirmations a while ago. It just says "Your order no. XXX of n items has been dispatched" a
by imagine99 6y ago
This is why Amazon stopped mentioning the product name in shipping confirmations a while ago. It just says "Your order no. XXX of n items has been dispatched" and they don't say which items. In the order confirmation, they do list the product name but no longer the product number (ASIN). Looks like they don't want Google to have access to the same extremely valuable data on what items shoppers actually order and when. The unintended consequence is that the messages are now quite useless to me (it's literally useless spam if you order more than 1 thing per week), as you never know from the email itself what item was actually shipped...
I thought this was a privacy setting that you could toggle somewhere (so as to get useful information if you're not using Gmail) but that isn't available.
Quite annoying on one hand but on the other, good on Amazon (I am saying this fully aware of whom I applauding) for frustrating Google's data hunger a bit.
- EE84M3i 6y agosource? Do they only do this to @gmail emails?
- lupire 6y agoSource: your mailbox if you use Amazon. All emails. SMS contains product info. The reason for the behavior isn't documented though. Surely Google knows how to read your SMS too, for Android Messages users.
- EE84M3i 6y agoSorry, I meant source that that's the reason they stopped including the details.
- lupire 6y agoWhy is it Amazon's job to prevent people from using their email how they choose?
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIt's not, but there appears to be no law that requires detailed email receipts from businesses, so it'd be expected they'd take the route that prioritizes their interests over those of their customers.
- paulie_a 6y agoIt is their job to design their own email templates as they see fit The customer doesn't get a say in the matter
- tehlike 6y agoI think they also did so due to other services scraping for things like price matching. Paribus etc comes to mind.
- boring_twenties 6y agoThis was the final straw that led me to cancel Prime and reduce my Amazon purchases by something like 80%.
- m-p-3 6y agoSo this is why I gotta keep opening the links to figure out which articles the email is about. Terribly annoying.
- imagine99 6y agoI actually think this could be a serious security issue. They train you to click on links in cryptic emails which are indistinguishable from spam at first glance. So if you're waiting for one important item and get like ten of these "1 item has dispatched, click here to learn more" and mindlessly click through a bunch to find which one is the one you're waiting for... malware could easily hide behind one of those doors, especially for users who are not so alert to potential phishing attacks. It's frankly completely the opposite of what we want to train users to do. Such an odd decision from a UX perspective. But then again, Amazon have never really been heroes in the UI/UX field and I guess their reasoning for this change was that frustrating any scraping efforts by Google and others was more important than giving their users the best possible user experience. Quite ironic if you consider their motto, to be the "Earth's most customer-centric company". But then again, as the poet said, what's in a name...