Agree. Main reason why I hate this is because Amazon will take that info and recommend items to purchase. I'm tired of looking at toddler toy recommendations because my kids are no longer toddlers but I purchased a decent amount of toddler toys a number of years ago.Substitute AMAZON for Apple for the exact same situation.
I’ve been an Amazon customer for 20+ years (since they were just selling books on-line) and there have been many purchases I’d rather “forget” and just flat out delete but Amazon will not let you delete anything from your purchase history.
The only way that you can cloak those orders is Amazons offer is to “Archive” orders … but those orders are still alive and well in your limited Archive space. At this point there is a limit on the number of orders that can be archived (several hundred, IIRC).
I’m guessing that the AMAZON DATA SWEEPERS want to keep everything a customer has ever ordered (they probably track & record everything you’ve ever looked at as well) for their data sales team to monetize.
Big Brother are these on-line retailers who collect, package & sell everything we willing provide to them … in the name of customers.