I haven't seen this yet. Never used the app - I use the mobile site usually while logged in (but not always). Unfortunately a few features are missing (like being able to see all items for some reason by a specific seller) but otherwise it works well.
Is this you on X or did you link to a random post ?
0cf8612b2e1e 2 hours ago [-]
Amazon has also changed their email receipts to be worthless. Previously, you would get the product name and price paid, giving you a minimal record sufficient for tracking. Now you get an email that says N items, broadly categorized (housewares, pets, clothing) and no pricing information.
Clearly a customer focused decision.
cromka 1 hours ago [-]
Someone explained how it relates to their AI shopping plans. Don't actually remember how.
sowbug 2 hours ago [-]
For a long time, it was actually even worse: they obfuscated the product name, and added other products they wanted you to buy. So when you searched your email for practically anything, all sorts of Amazon garbage would come back.
dgrin91 2 hours ago [-]
This one infuriates me to no end. On credit card bills amazon orders show up as random garbage strings in the description. I had systems that would read these emails and pull out the product data so that I can feed it into my finance tracking system. Now I can't do anything.
joshstrange 56 minutes ago [-]
This also frustrates me, I vibe-coded [0] a chrome extension that reads the data from Amazon's website (read orders and purchases, which are different things...) and then matches them against the YNAB entries and then updates the memo line in YNAB with the name of the item(s) (after running the item name through a small LLM, haiku, to clean up amazon-speak into something reasonable).
This has been working well for me overall.
It's not open source (or paid), it's just for me and I'm not looking to maintain or support it but it should be easy to replicate. It does require I go to Amazon on my desktop and click the extension and tell it to "Sync" but that's easy enough and it makes my budgeting way easier.
[0] I did this over 1.5 years ago (Jan 2025) so it's probably even easier now, I wrote it with Aider and it cost $27.81 in API credits (this was before Claude Code/coding subscriptions). The only reason I know the cost so exactly is that I had started to write a blog post about it but abandoned it.
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everdrive 2 hours ago [-]
Hard to know how to feel about this. Bots and such have really ruined the value of customer reviews. The best that can be said is they don't work as intended. The question is whether Amazon can actually fix this problem rather than continuing band-aid over it.
metalliqaz 2 hours ago [-]
they only care about preventing customer data escaping their grasp
maxbobby 3 hours ago [-]
It looks like Amazon is starting to hide some reviews to protect against data scraping bots, and in some cases it is affecting real (non-bot) customers.
Were you signed in when you got the message? All of the sorting / filtering / search options are showing up fine for me (as a signed in user).
_vertigo 2 hours ago [-]
When I clicked “see more reviews” while signed out it prompted me to sign in
CamperBob2 2 hours ago [-]
That's been the case for years.
josefritzishere 1 hours ago [-]
Can't trust Bezos, but also can't trust AI spam. Whatever shall we do?
cardiffspaceman 22 minutes ago [-]
Can we put Bezos on a PIP?
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Is this you on X or did you link to a random post ?
Clearly a customer focused decision.
This has been working well for me overall.
It's not open source (or paid), it's just for me and I'm not looking to maintain or support it but it should be easy to replicate. It does require I go to Amazon on my desktop and click the extension and tell it to "Sync" but that's easy enough and it makes my budgeting way easier.
[0] I did this over 1.5 years ago (Jan 2025) so it's probably even easier now, I wrote it with Aider and it cost $27.81 in API credits (this was before Claude Code/coding subscriptions). The only reason I know the cost so exactly is that I had started to write a blog post about it but abandoned it.
Were you signed in when you got the message? All of the sorting / filtering / search options are showing up fine for me (as a signed in user).