• Smug_Marmot@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    I’ve started getting these. Its a little odd. The latest one I received told me it shipped “2 camera and 1 kitchen item”. The camera items were a baby monitor and a mount for the baby camera and the kitchen item were coffee filters. So I guess it’s accurate but kind of a useless description.

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      Yeah, I’ve made a rule that just marks them as read and archives the. right away, no point seeing them at all when they’re so useless.

    • civ@lemmy.civl.cc
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      2 hours ago

      Same, I’m not sure who thought this was actually going to be helpful. Instead it just means I need to figure out exactly which item it’s talking about in the email

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        Maybe it was a privacy thing? Like they don’t want to put “we shipped your ENORMOUS DILDO” in the subject and body of the email.

        Or for a more reasonable example, stuff like contraceptives to people in places with repressive governments like Kansas.

        • chisel@piefed.social
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          They don’t want Google having access to all of the juicy customer behavior/interests and product pricing information. Any privacy benefit for end users is purely coincidental, but very welcome. Though, I’d hope anyone that cares about privacy even a little bit is staying far away Gmail and others like it.