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Huh, I suppose that's why I sometimes have to click through several different Amazon emails to find the specific order or shipment I'm looking for. They've remo

Huh, I suppose that's why I sometimes have to click through several different Amazon emails to find the specific order or shipment I'm looking for. They've removed the details from the actual email.

tablespoon 5y ago
> Huh, I suppose that's why I sometimes have to click through several different Amazon emails to find the specific order or shipment I'm looking for. They've removed the details from the actual email. Yeah, and there's nothing you can do. I don't even use gmail anymore, and the emails are still garbage. I think for awhile they used to include a truncated name of one of the products in the order, but it looks like they even removed that (sometime around August 2019, based on my emails). Unrelated observation: in my original comment I added a second paragraph noting that this regression was due to the incentives caused by modern capitalism (and it is: owners trying to extract maximum value for themselves, even if that means hurting their customers), and it immediately started getting downvoted. Then I change "capitalism" to "economy" and it started going up again. Some people are really sensitive. It must be blasphemy to criticize the invisible hand and the wisdom of the owners ti guides. I guess right is whatever they do.
- space_fountain 5y ago
  Could also be that they just want you back on their site because some ab test at some point decided you're more likely to be buy from them again if they can get you back onto amazon.com
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Spooky23 5y ago
It benefits them in many ways. Good luck figuring out where a random Amazon box was ordered from if there are multiple buyers in your household.
mullingitover 5y ago
Just go to your order history in Amazon, it's all there and much more searchable than trying to rifle through emails.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  I.e. forcing you to use their platform to access this data, instead of an independent platform that is e-mail. Nice way of taking away users' control over their own data.
  - ohgodplsno 5y ago
    Had everyone not given full access to a worldwide privacy invading operation such as google, it might not have been a problem. You reap what you sow, and HN has sown plenty of Google seeds.
    - shadowgovt 5y ago
      It's not a Google thing; it's an Amazon thing. Amazon is hyper-paranoid about leaking any aspect of its purchase history data; that's what it considers the "special sauce" every bit as much as Facebook guards its social graph or Google guards the ad fraud detection algorithm.
  - mullingitover 5y ago
    You're already using their platform to generate the data, I don't understand the problem with also using it to view that data. Not providing intricate details about your purchases in email is a privacy-enhancing feature, given that probably most of their customers are using gmail.
    - compiler-guy 5y ago
      Except that I can't export that data from amazon easily if I, say, change or delete my account, or just want to run a program on my own data. Whereas that is pretty easy with any sort of email client.

Huh, I suppose that's why I sometimes have to click through several different Amazon emails to find the specific order or shipment I'm looking for. They've removed the details from the actual email.

tablespoon 5y ago

> Huh, I suppose that's why I sometimes have to click through several different Amazon emails to find the specific order or shipment I'm looking for. They've removed the details from the actual email. Yeah, and there's nothing you can do. I don't even use gmail anymore, and the emails are still garbage. I think for awhile they used to include a truncated name of one of the products in the order, but it looks like they even removed that (sometime around August 2019, based on my emails). Unrelated observation: in my original comment I added a second paragraph noting that this regression was due to the incentives caused by modern capitalism (and it is: owners trying to extract maximum value for themselves, even if that means hurting their customers), and it immediately started getting downvoted. Then I change "capitalism" to "economy" and it started going up again. Some people are really sensitive. It must be blasphemy to criticize the invisible hand and the wisdom of the owners ti guides. I guess right is whatever they do.

space_fountain 5y ago
Could also be that they just want you back on their site because some ab test at some point decided you're more likely to be buy from them again if they can get you back onto amazon.com
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Spooky23 5y ago

It benefits them in many ways. Good luck figuring out where a random Amazon box was ordered from if there are multiple buyers in your household.

mullingitover 5y ago

Just go to your order history in Amazon, it's all there and much more searchable than trying to rifle through emails.

TeMPOraL 5y ago
I.e. forcing you to use their platform to access this data, instead of an independent platform that is e-mail. Nice way of taking away users' control over their own data.
- ohgodplsno 5y ago
  Had everyone not given full access to a worldwide privacy invading operation such as google, it might not have been a problem. You reap what you sow, and HN has sown plenty of Google seeds.
  - shadowgovt 5y ago
    It's not a Google thing; it's an Amazon thing. Amazon is hyper-paranoid about leaking any aspect of its purchase history data; that's what it considers the "special sauce" every bit as much as Facebook guards its social graph or Google guards the ad fraud detection algorithm.
- mullingitover 5y ago
  You're already using their platform to generate the data, I don't understand the problem with also using it to view that data. Not providing intricate details about your purchases in email is a privacy-enhancing feature, given that probably most of their customers are using gmail.
  - compiler-guy 5y ago
    Except that I can't export that data from amazon easily if I, say, change or delete my account, or just want to run a program on my own data. Whereas that is pretty easy with any sort of email client.