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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
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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-dataI don’t see this in my case. All the emails that I get show the actual product.
I’ve started getting these. Its a little odd. The latest one I received told me it shipped “2 camera and 1 kitchen item”. The camera items were a baby monitor and a mount for the baby camera and the kitchen item were coffee filters. So I guess it’s accurate but kind of a useless description.
Same, I’m not sure who thought this was actually going to be helpful. Instead it just means I need to figure out exactly which item it’s talking about in the email
Maybe it was a privacy thing? Like they don’t want to put “we shipped your ENORMOUS DILDO” in the subject and body of the email.
Or for a more reasonable example, stuff like contraceptives to people in places with repressive governments like Kansas.
They don’t want Google having access to all of the juicy customer behavior/interests and product pricing information. Any privacy benefit for end users is purely coincidental, but very welcome. Though, I’d hope anyone that cares about privacy even a little bit is staying far away Gmail and others like it.