Thread by @azonenberg

Why does Amazon bother sending order confirmation / shipped emails anymore? There's no actionable information left in them.

All I know is "something shipped". I don't know *what* shipped, when it's arriving, the tracking number, etc.

So all I do is delete them because it tells me nothing.

Also, I really wish there was a privacy setting to say "I don't use a mail provider that data-mines my inbox, please include full order details in the emails"

Or, equivalently, "I use gmail but also adblock, so IDGAF if Google can see my purchase history because I won't be seeing the ads anyway".

I generally don't care much about silent background web tracking because it doesn't harm me in any noticeable way. Ads are in-your-face.

You can waste all the time you want data-mining whatever you can learn about my purchase habits and feeding it into some big neural network.

As long as it doesn't change my experience on or off line for the worse, I don't care.