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Screenshot of a paper opened in elsevier's PDF view on the top, and on the bottom viewing network traffic, showing a POST request to a newrelic server with a 'pointerdown' event

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Screenshot of a paper opened in elsevier's PDF view on the top, and on the bottom viewing network traffic, showing a POST request to a newrelic server with a 'pointerdown' event
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jonny (jonny@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 06:20:04 JST jonny

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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