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To 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 i
by nkurz 5y ago
To 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...