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raizer88yesterday at 5:40 PM1 replyview on HN

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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tredre3yesterday at 6:03 PM

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?

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