I noticed Amazon has stopped informing you what you actually purchased in their confirmation emails (though the emails still have other purchase suggestions in them). I'm guessing that might be partially to prevent the info from being conveyed to Google in Gmail.

I can almost guarantee it's to get you to click back into the store for re-engagement.

> I can almost guarantee it's to get you to click back into the store for re-engagement.

Yes. I saw that while in China. I would get push notifications from Gmail and I was able to know what was the mail about without access to Gmail. But, for Facebook I would only get "You got a message". And that was totally unhelpful. Now, I knew that I had a message that I was not able to access too. Seriously infuriating.

I think it can be for both giving less data to Google and to get you to re-engage at Amazon.

Nope. Google hasn't been mining gmail emails since 2017.

Google promise not to scan your Gmail emails for ad purposes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21918595 , https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603

Precisely why I don't use Gmail. I know that most people I correspond with use Gmail, so it's somewhat pointless, but at least my use of Protonmail adds some friction to the system when I use it for buying stuff.

I feel the same way. I am happy to do little things to push back on surveillance capitalism.

Of topic, but the ProtonMail service just keeps getting better and better. I just tried Hey email for about 5 days, really liked the pretty UI, but it felt good to switch back to ProtonMail.

Which is why Amazon has stopped including your order contents in the confirmation or shipment emails. What a stupid outcome.

right on.

I use ProtonMail but most of my email is with people who are on gmail. Oh well.

I know it would be very niche but it would be interesting to see an online store built around Signal, or something similar (assuming a proper privacy policy on not monetizing your data).