Post AE3A7upf75t2TsDsBc by jonny@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #AE3A7sTbs73hAttEXI by jonny@social.coop
       2021-12-04T02:03:29Z
       
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       Of course Elsevier's "enhanced pdf viewer" tracks where you click, view, if you hide the page, etc. and then transmits a big base64 blob of events along with ID from University proxy when you leave. I'm sure straight to SciVal for sale. Is this the way we want science to work?
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3A7upf75t2TsDsBc by jonny@social.coop
       2021-12-04T02:09:47Z
       
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       genuinely sad that avoiding/gaming surveillance to keep your Bench Performance Rankings in the fundable range might have to become part of basic scientific training.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3A7wvPKhfeyGvUQ4 by jonny@social.coop
       2021-12-04T02:33:01Z
       
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       https://twitter.com/jeffersonpooley/status/1462813222193537025?s=20
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3A80B7El1D3rIZou by jonny@social.coop
       2021-12-04T02:33:01Z
       
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       https://twitter.com/jeffersonpooley/status/1466437300989091843?s=20
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3A83sTU0U4XCbkJs by jonny@social.coop
       2021-12-04T02:47:27Z
       
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       Firefox tracking protection & ublock origin seems to protect against all the trackers I can see
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3A896q21wclCMmu0 by jonny@social.coop
       2021-12-04T02:51:36Z
       
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       can't protect against all, or even most tracking even if you manage to block all tracking HTTP requests. eg. Springer's viewer doesn't serve the whole PDF, just individual pages as you scroll. link clicks (citations, etc) could be used for document position too.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3v9ys37WIb4ecLEu by scolobb@bidule.menf.in
       2021-12-04T13:56:48.359242Z
       
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       @jonny Oh my god, thanks for letting us know.  I am not really surprised, but I guess I still underestimated the degree to which Elsevier and such are completely bonkers 😢
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3zFaQlIhOgpQmZkG by FiXato@toot.cat
       2021-12-04T03:21:36Z
       
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       @jonny sending large amounts of faked data might be a good way to ruin their dataset? :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3zLTMoTa7Cesk4lU by MartinShadok@aleph.land
       2021-12-04T08:52:22Z
       
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       @FiXato @jonny We can even send a message with that: by only sending click coordinates that match an obscene picture or so 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3zLU4lq9HErDJBHU by vl1@mastodon.social
       2021-12-04T09:03:05Z
       
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       @MartinShadok @FiXato @jonny omw to spell out "penis" 50 times in a row
       
 (DIR) Post #AE3zcJHFF7zIHwAN1s by maxmustermann@shitposter.club
       2021-12-04T14:46:45.051203Z
       
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       @jonny What a scumbag move. There has to be some GDPR message in popping up in European universities.
       
 (DIR) Post #AEvuhbrmlxg9IQuH3Y by 7daq0@social.anoxinon.de
       2021-12-04T12:01:11Z
       
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       @jonnyThe #DFG wrote a warning paper on that matter.https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2021/info_wissenschaft_21_43/index.htmlIn German#deepL or #LibreTranslate may help.#Datentracking in der #Wissenschaft: #DFG warnt vor #Datenmissbrauch durch #Verlage - #Forschung & #Lehre – https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/dfg-warnt-vor-datenmissbrauch-durch-verlage-3737