[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
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>> 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
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