Since I have the power to move mountains, I’m going to try again.
Amazon, this is not a useful order confirmation email:
It doesn’t tell me what I ordered. So:
- I don’t get a solid off-site confirmation of what I ordered.
- I can’t search my email to find that order.
We’re coming up on the two-year anniversary of this change. At the time, the consensus seems to be Amazon wanting to avoid sales data being mined from mass email reading. Summed up by John Gruber:
Almost certainly they’re doing this to thwart email-scraping data harvesters from obtaining information about Amazon sales.
So we the customers are being usability-punished because of invasive privacy practices of multi-billion dollar companies. Neato. Y’all got enough money, give us useful order emails again.
Noting that I got an Amazon order email on Dec 21, 2023 that actually contained the order items. Change happened?
Maybe Amazon doesn’t want to limit its customers’ privacy to the privacy of their email inboxes. They could at least let the customer set a preference about this.