When you order something from Amazon, you get an email, but it doesn’t confirm what you ordered.

When an order ships, you get an email, but it doesn’t tell you what has shipped.

What the fuck?

Michael Tsai rounds some things up. Including Paul Rosania’s tweet:

Amazon order confirmations and shipment notifications no longer include any item details. I could not for the life of me figure out why they would do this. They're not scored on MAUs, they don't need me to click through. Then I realized: is it so Google can't see my order data?

— Paul Rosania (@ptr) May 28, 2020

The vibe is that it’s probably an effort to snuff out companies that snoop on your email, scraping data out of it for ??? reasons.

I find it entirely obnoxious. Slightly understandable that Amazon (perhaps?) wants to fight against privacy-be-damning email snoopers, but to not tell me why, and instead neuter my experience without any options feels worse.