[INDOLOGY] Academia.edu creepy things

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 11:39 PM Ajit Gargeshwari <ajit.gargeshwari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's just a coincidence.  Everything  else speculation. It would be a good
> idea to change passwords frequently  and make sure all software are legal
> and are regularly  or automatically  updated. Delete cookies frequently
> and that might help.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 12:46 PM Birgit Kellner via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> 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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