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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by HelmetFigNewton on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:21AM (#40282602)
Amazon deserves zero credit for anything regarding E-mail, because their "order confirmations" don't say WHAT YOU ORDERED.

Mind-bogglingly stupid and annoying.

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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by derrikcurran on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:37AM (#40282688)
I think that's because they don't want email providers, Gmail in particular, scraping for purchase history
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Re:Caniemail.com (like caniuse but for email content) by HelmetFigNewton on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @08:00PM (#40292908)
That should be up to the recipient. Every other vendor provides this essential information in order confirmations.

Amazon's refusal to do so means you can't search your E-mail history for purchases (at tax time, for example). Or for warranty info or service. You may not know where you bought a particular item. Or which Amazon account you might have used.

If everyone followed Amazon's anti-customer example, you'd have to log into every E-commerce site you ever bought something from and search your order history... year by year... to find something. Unacceptable BS.

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