Ask HN: Payload in Amazon "Shipped" Emails

3•krautburglar•1mo ago

Does anyone know what this 5k payload is for?

https://justpaste.it/fkqba

Comments

chrisjj•1mo ago

Bungled programming, I'll bet. The programmers behind Amazon emails cannot even get simple HTML right. They regularly send me mails showing & etc.

krautburglar•1mo ago

The LLM was looping. :-)

krautburglar•1mo ago

Turns out it is some marketing bullshit to force what some mail clients show in the preview. They use a large pad of joiners / combiners / soft punctuation / etc. to prevent the mail client from choosing text after the pad for the content preview.

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