Reading stories about Amazon omitting order details in emails, apparently in order to stop other suppliers from scraping the email content, a few months ago I wondered:
The mystery isn’t about why Amazon are doing this: I’m just wondering why I seem to have missed out?
Yesterday I placed my first Amazon UK order in ages requiring delivery of physical goods and my order confirmation email contained a truncated version of my order, just like everyone else has apparently been getting for a while now.
I feel seen.1
- OK, seen by a vast, dispassionate, automated commercial enterprise that simply wants as much of my disposable income as possible to pass through Amazon's systems and doesn't know or care whether what I'm buying is making my life better, but still… ↩