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?
Is this the way we want science to work?
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.
Firefox tracking protection & ublock origin seems to protect against all the trackers I can see
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.
fediverse just hits different !/
gonna cause a whole damn research hype bubble by hiring a botnet to open and close a pdf a billion times a second
this might read like a joke now but I am making another I Hereby Call Botnet Manipulation Of Scientific Algorithmic Recommendation Products
check my math:
1 = p(adversarial botnets | algorithmic recommendation systems)
1 = p(adversarial botnets | algorithmic recommendation systems)
idk
in their shareholder statements, they list "customer acceptance of products," or "people starting to figure out the scam" as a major strategic risk. i think we should make it risky.
(p62: web.archive.org/web/2021120408… )
(p62: web.archive.org/web/2021120408… )
sorry, late in the thread, but in case it wasn't clear: the purpose of Elsevier's acquisition of Mendeley was to extend this same surveillance across the whole scientific workflow. See also: SNSI -> RA21 -> SeamlessAccess
to those mentioning sci-hub, please see the ongoing litigation in India:
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1465565677507334152?t=G3eeCL0Sm2ENcggGjvK8HQ&s=19
and here's more on how SciVal and related products are marketed
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1456072577902735362?t=G3eeCL0Sm2ENcggGjvK8HQ&s=19
and more on how recommendation algorithms fit into the larger publishing model of knowledge organization Monopoly
https://twitter.com/json_dirs/status/1454294516769464322?t=G3eeCL0Sm2ENcggGjvK8HQ&s=19
I have started mapping the publisher surveillance/propaganda network using @obsdmd here, and would love to have collaborators/pull requests ❤️
github.com/sneakers-the-r…
github.com/sneakers-the-r…
as usual, librarians, library scientists & information scientists are way ahead of the rest of us on this and should be our close allies
https://twitter.com/greenarchives1/status/1461360489271681048?t=Cynq7rJoPZaqfn0muNr5_Q&s=19
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