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anarcho-hackers · 3 years ago

Global surveillance corporation #Elsevier tracks what you do when you use their enhanced pdf reader. Where and when you click and what you view and send it back with the ID of your library.

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Global surveillance corporation #Elsevier tracks what you do when you use their enhanced pdf reader. Where and when you click and what you view and send it back with the ID of your library.

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anarcho-hackers · 3 years ago

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jonny (@jonny@social.coop)

Attached: 3 images 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?

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the PDF file format makes it possible, we need to bring back .ps as an industry standard

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