[INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things

Christian Ferstl christian.ferstl at univie.ac.at
Sun Apr 9 13:11:36 UTC 2023


academia.edu > click your profile name in the upper right corner > email 
notifications in the left hand list > click the tick boxes and save
This should work.
Best,
Christian

Am 09.04.2023 14:51, schrieb Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY:
> Can Lubomir or anyone else tell us how to turn off notifications? I
> could not find any obvious way to do it. Thanks.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2023, at 3:39 AM, Lubomír Ondračka via INDOLOGY 
>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, you can indeed sometimes get an email even though you have all 
>> notifications turned off. In my experience, this happens in two cases.
>> 
>> First, when Academia.edu adds a new kind of notification, it always 
>> sets it as "on" (otherwise we would not know about it). In that case, 
>> we need to go into the settings again and turn off this new 
>> notification.
>> 
>> Second, Academia.edu occasionally asks selected users for feedback on 
>> new planned changes (new features, new look, etc.). I usually give 
>> this feedback because I have been using this site for many years (for 
>> free) and I consider it fair to contribute to its development.
>> 
>> LO
>> 
>> 
>> On 09.04.2023 2:11, Patricia Sauthoff via INDOLOGY wrote:
>>> I have set my academia account to never email me and have even asked 
>>> gmail to send everything there to spam and yet about once a year they 
>>> sneak into my inbox and I have to do it all over again.
>>> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 3:44 PM Tracy Coleman 
>>> <tcoleman at coloradocollege.edu <mailto:tcoleman at coloradocollege.edu>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>    At the very least, we should not speak our thoughts aloud, or keep
>>>    our private diaries on our devices. 🙂
>>>    
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>    *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info
>>>    <mailto:indology-bounces at list.indology.info>> on behalf of Ananya
>>>    Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info
>>>    <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>>>    *Sent:* Saturday, April 8, 2023 3:23 AM
>>>    *To:* Claudius Teodorescu <claudius.teodorescu at gmail.com
>>>    <mailto:claudius.teodorescu at gmail.com>>
>>>    *Cc:* indology at list.indology.info
>>>    <mailto:indology at list.indology.info> <indology at list.indology.info
>>>    <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>>>    *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things
>>>    This email originated outside Colorado College. Do not click links
>>>    or attachments unless you know the content is safe.
>>>    I find there’s a lot of leakage between one’s mobile phone calls,
>>>    emails, social media accounts and services like Academia / 
>>> Research
>>>    Gate / Dropbox / Interfolio. It’s only a matter of time before our
>>>    thoughts too become accessible, predictable and monetizable. In 
>>> the
>>>    event that as academics we can’t go off the grid entirely, perhaps
>>>    it’s better to resign oneself to this invasion of the mind 
>>> snatchers?
>>>    AV.
>>>    On Saturday, April 8, 2023, Claudius Teodorescu via INDOLOGY
>>>    <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>>>    wrote:
>>>        Hi,
>>>        If it is the case that Academia app was installed, one can
>>>        notice that it collects name and email address (see [1]), 
>>> which
>>>        is sure enough to correlate with information from Indology
>>>        archives, which are public.
>>>        Maybe deleting the Academia account will help.
>>>        Claudius
>>>        [1]
>>>        
>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US 
>>> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.academia.academia&hl=en&gl=US>
>>>        On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 11:11, Jean Michel DELIRE via INDOLOGY
>>>        <indology at list.indology.info
>>>        <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>>>            I once uploaded an article to Academia and, since then, I
>>>            receive notifications every day that 'people' are reading
>>>            this article and other papers of mine. Usually, I don't 
>>> know
>>>            these 'people', which could even be a certain
>>>            CuneiformComposite (the name of a font), but some are 
>>> known
>>>            to me and appear in my emails.I also receive notifications
>>>            that my name has been quoted in such or such article (some
>>>            having nothing to do with my work, as very specialized
>>>            medical articles by instance), but it is impossible to 
>>> know
>>>            more, without paying. This seems to be a very erratic
>>>            process, probably led by a silly robot.
>>>            Best,
>>>            *Jean Michel DELIRE*
>>>            /*Lecturer on History of mathematics - IHEB (ULB)*/
>>>            /*Lecturer on *//*Science and civilisation of India -
>>>            Sanskrit Texts - IHEB (ULB)*/
>>>            /*Member of the Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences
>>>            (KBR, Bruxelles)*/
>>>            /*Member of the Société Asiatique (Paris)*/
>>>            /*Member of the International Association of Sanskrit 
>>> Studies*/
>>>            Le ven. 7 avr. 2023 à 23:38, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY
>>>            <indology at list.indology.info
>>>            <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> a écrit :
>>>                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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>>>        --         Cu stimă,
>>>        Claudius Teodorescu
>>>    --     Sent on the fly, please excuse typos.
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>>> --
>>> Patricia Sauthoff, PhD (she/they)
>>> Assistant Lecturer
>>> Department of History, Classics, and Religion
>>> University of Alberta
>>> Edmonton, Canada
>>> (I will respond as quickly as I can. In the meantime, here is a pdf 
>>> <https://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/med-guided2.pdf> of some of my 
>>> favorite simple guided meditations.)
>>> Author: Illness and Immortality: mantra, maṇḍala, and meditation in 
>>> the Netra Tantra 
>>> <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/illness-and-immortality-9780197553268?cc=us&lang=en&#:~:text=Patricia%20Sauthoff%20examines%20the%20role,to%20alleviate%20illness%20and%20death.&text=It%20asks%20how%20ritual%20alleviates,rites%20described%20within%20the%20text.>
>>> University of Alberta resources
>>> Sexual assault centre: sexualassaultcentre at ualberta.ca 
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>>> Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights: osdhr at ualberta.ca 
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