fuck amazon. i literally just built an email scraper so i can use this exact email as a way to understand where my disposable amazon spending is going. because of course they don’t offer any way to export your purchases to analyze your spending.

Does the article explain what the "DoorDash problem" is?

Don't forget the fact that you absolutely, positively cannot trust the quality of the item that will arrive. At this point, you're much more likely to get some third party knock off with a lot of popular items.

Usability-reducing features like this do me a favor by giving me yet another reason to use Amazon less and less.

Yeah I used it to manage my finances. In my banking app it just shows up as:
Amazon $24
Amazon $12
Amazon $16

Before, I checked the emails to label and tag the transactions according to what they actually were: electronics, furniture, etc. Now I have to log in and track down that one hidden page that splits your purchases into actual transactions instead of one infinite scrolling list of items, because Amazon will group the purchases seemingly arbitrarily based on it's own shipping algorithm.

They made the entire UX hostile just to spite A.I. users. Not the first time they've done something similar; I'm getting pretty tired of their shit. In fact, I think I'm going to try some alternatives in my country and see if they're better to use.

Same. Pretty often I want to pull up the specs on some computer part, but these days nothing is clearly labeled with a part number. I don't think my motherboard has one at all, certainly none where I can see. I would just search my email for "motherboard" and the most recent result was probably the one I wanted.

Yea that was to kill small businesses that couldn’t compete.

My favorite is I ordered dog food. It was scheduled for 2 weeks (with prime). It arrived next day. Amazon still said it wasn't shipped yet. To this day "expected delivery date is currently unknown" in the Amazon app. I ordered it in May. It does give me the option to request refund but I haven't done it as the food was actually delivered and this seems like some employee forgot to scan the sticker at some point.

Google has had a feature variant of this since at least 2014. Back when Google Now was a thing (before LLM's took off) there was a significant outcry about privacy because Google was scraping your emails to tell you when your packages shipped and when they would be delivered, to remind you when your flight was and what time you needed to leave for the airport and if your gate changed etc.

The thing that bothers me about this is, at that point it could be a opt in thing (on the email providers side), and it shouldn't be up to Amazon to use "customer protection" as a reason to enshittify their services so that they can continue to be anti-competitive.

Let alone the predictive pricing. "Oh you usually run out of shampoo mid month? Well guess what, shampoo prices double on the 10th and just happen to drop back down on the 25th. "

*Gives A.I. agent access to credit card*

I need a tungsten cube

Thats what I was thinking, since now they all compete against each other we can expect everything to get shittier as more walled gardens go up.

Which is stupid because it's the equivalent of saying "you can't send someone to Walmart to buy an item for you. That should be illegal!"

Nah. Trying to keep our order histories away from competitors and analysis.