[INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things

[Birgit Kellner]

This might just be a coincidence. But would it be possible if someone 
uses Academia.edu through a Google login, with their gmail account, that 
some kind of triggering mechanism comes to apply?

Best, Birgit Kellner

Am 07.04.23 um 23:37 schrieb Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY:
> That's quite suspicious. Perhaps Kaul had a burst of online business 
> and posted to INDOLOGY and /at the same time/ uploaded the review to 
> Academia, which triggered your notification.  We can't tell from 
> Academia when papers are uploaded, but the review has 317 views, which 
> suggests it was uploaded a while ago, not recently.  So that 
> explanation is probably wrong.
>
> How could Academia possibly be getting information about your incoming 
> emails?  What mechanism can we imagine?  Emails don't deposit cookies, 
> so cross-site cookies aren't the pathway.  If Academia is harvesting 
> from the INDOLOGY archive, which is technically possible, then 
> *everyone* would get the Kaul notification or similar ones, not just 
> you.  It's hard to see how this might work.  Without a plausible 
> mechanism, I'm staying with coincidence.
>
> But I have all my Academia notifications turned off, so I never get 
> anything from them. If I want to know their stuff, I look at the website.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
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