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Re:How to stay private when using Android by danShumway on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @02:21PM (#21929905)
I just checked the emails I received from Amazon from Christmas purchases, and it is not false. I don't doubt you, but I'm curious what the difference is. I'm looking at order confirmation emails and package ship/delivery emails. They only list order numbers for me, and I need to click through to the Amazon account to see the actual items.

Is there a different category of purchase that you're looking at, or is there something I'm missing?

Edit: I am looking online and I'm not seeing any articles that reference Amazon hiding orders specifically to thwart Gmail tracking, so it's very possible I'm wrong and that's just anecdote. But that being said, they definitely aren't showing individual items in my email confirmations. Is there a preference for this that I forgot I toggled?

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Re:How to stay private when using Android by grzm on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @02:32PM (#21929973)
In my experience, I’ve noticed that order confirmation includes order details: shipping confirmation not. Took me a while to notice the pattern, and I still find it frustrating.
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Re:How to stay private when using Android by hydgv on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @02:26PM (#21929932)
I have no clue.

https://i.imgur.com/qiKBJQf.png

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Re:How to stay private when using Android by eezurr on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @03:20PM (#21930317)
Do both of you use gmail?
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Re:How to stay private when using Android by danShumway on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @05:07PM (#21931066)
I'm on Fastmail. I looked back at some of my old Gmail emails and they do list items. The Fastmail emails do not. This strikes me as really weird, if anything I would expect it to be the opposite.

Regardless, it's pretty clear that Amazon doesn't universally hide order information, so my assertion that they're doing it to avoid Gmail tracking seems to be pretty objectively wrong. If they were, they would do a better job.

Note that Gmail is still tracking your purchases, that's pretty widely established, and until recently, they were using your purchase history for ads. But I'm definitely wrong about Amazon's response, and I can't track down whatever source gave me that idea.

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