This is a big business for hedge funds too, not just advertisers. Every Uber receipt, every Amazon purchase, every receipt that hits your email inbox. Aggregated and tracked at the product SKU level. That is pure gold for investment research. Few sources of data can match what email inboxes provide.
Huh. I guess Facebook’s move away from including someone’s update or message in their notification emails had to do with more than getting you to go to their site...
I've been filtering them straight into the trash for the best part of a decade. It seems so backwards to send them when most people check their Facebook more often than their email.
Maybe I have, I'm not sure. Whatever I did to stop my inbox being flooded with emails from Facebook, I did almost a decade ago and I haven't touched it since.
Probably filtering them. Before I deleted my FB I remember it being a struggle to not have my inbox flooded. I would disable all the notifications and every few months when they updated their policies or changed the site those notifications would helpfully get turned back on.
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This is a big business for hedge funds too, not just advertisers. Every Uber receipt, every Amazon purchase, every receipt that hits your email inbox. Aggregated and tracked at the product SKU level. That is pure gold for investment research. Few sources of data can match what email inboxes provide.
E.g. Superfly Insights [1], Return Path [2]
[1] https://alternativedata.org/data_provider/superfly-insights/
[2] https://returnpath.com/downloads/know-email-data/
This is why Amazon no longer lists all of your purchases in your email receipt. It just says "your order of XXX and N more items".
Huh. I guess Facebook’s move away from including someone’s update or message in their notification emails had to do with more than getting you to go to their site...
Facebook still does notification emails?
I've been filtering them straight into the trash for the best part of a decade. It seems so backwards to send them when most people check their Facebook more often than their email.
Why not just turn them off? I haven't received a single notification email from then in years
Maybe I have, I'm not sure. Whatever I did to stop my inbox being flooded with emails from Facebook, I did almost a decade ago and I haven't touched it since.
Probably filtering them. Before I deleted my FB I remember it being a struggle to not have my inbox flooded. I would disable all the notifications and every few months when they updated their policies or changed the site those notifications would helpfully get turned back on.
And their support for OpenPGP encrypted email.
Likewise with Twitter