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by raizer88 36 days ago
Do you have any idea of how much they can datamine from an email service? Just making a special parser for amazon emails can give google a realtime insight on the ecommerce space.
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For a while Amazon stopped giving detail about the purchased items in their emails, to prevent Google from doing exactly that.

A year or two ago they returned to full detail. I've always wondered if it was customer pressure or a backroom deal with Amazon was reached.

I kind of doubt that Google would cave to the former, right?

i wonder how AMZN hasn't started its own mail yet.
With the (future) shutdown of WorkMail, AWS almost did the full circle.