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that was beautiful. > bank: sir this conversation is recorded but I blinked my eyes very slowly twice I laughed out loud at that. Edit: Also, I never realize
by avg_dev 5y ago
that was beautiful.
> bank: sir this conversation is recorded but I blinked my eyes very slowly twice
I laughed out loud at that.
Edit: Also, I never realized why Amazon stopped putting the name of the thing I purchased on the email receipt. Now it makes sense.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago> Now it makes sense. Can you enlighten me? Why don’t they include that in the email receipt?
- nkurz 5y agoTo prevent Google from tracking purchases. Google scans all email that passes through its servers and parses out who bought what. If the information isn't in the email, it makes it harder for Google to do this. Presumably Amazon wants to keep this information for its own competitive advantage. Further reading: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase... Also, your comments seem to be auto-dead for the last couple days. Glancing at your comment history, I'm not sure why. I vouched to recover this one. You might want to check in with Dan (hn@ycombinator.com) and ask him what's up.
- robocat 5y agoGoogle parses purchases for that feature, but it looks like Google denies using it for targeted advertising. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653102
- Kim_Bruning 5y agoI hope that's not true. People (and bots) should not be reading mails addressed to them. (Analogous to it being illegal to read physical letters addressed to someone else) Else maybe the EU needs to make some new laws again. :-/
- avg_dev 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Automated_scanning_of_email_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Automated_scanning_of_em...