[homerunnerhome]

I work for another retail where we discussed this same topic, and during that discussion I talked to some of my friends at Amazon and I would bet a lot of money that your guarantee is wrong. From what they told me, the decision to remove info from the emails was a company-wide campaign that was specifically created as a result of this [0] NYTimes article, which specifically calls out Google snooping on Amazon shopper data.

I'm sure the advertising PMs were happy to support this decision because it got them more page clicks, but my understanding is that the underlying motive was privacy.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/google-purchases....

[bagacrap]

privacy, or moat building? I don't consider it a breach of privacy for Gmail to index my purchases in order to show me more relevant ads and help provide a free service. And I definitely want to be able to search that index myself, like if I know I bought a product but can't remember from who or when it was, it sure would be nice to be able to search my Gmail for it.

[sfg]

You might not, but I think many do, hence the angle of the NYT article (which is within their 'Privacy Project').