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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977733/amazon-order-emails-google-gmail-ai-agents-data
I hate this.
I’ve always kept my “ordered” and “delivered” emails in order to have a searchable database of what I ordered and when.
Without the item name, making that discovery is a lot more challenging.
Yeah I used it to manage my finances. In my banking app it just shows up as:
Amazon $24
Amazon $12
Amazon $16
Before, I checked the emails to label and tag the transactions according to what they actually were: electronics, furniture, etc. Now I have to log in and track down that one hidden page that splits your purchases into actual transactions instead of one infinite scrolling list of items, because Amazon will group the purchases seemingly arbitrarily based on it’s own shipping algorithm.
They made the entire UX hostile just to spite A.I. users. Not the first time they’ve done something similar; I’m getting pretty tired of their shit. In fact, I think I’m going to try some alternatives in my country and see if they’re better to use.