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Can you elaborate regarding the privacy concern? arXiv content is public, isn't it?


Possibly refering to google now tracking who visits which articles.


Google will likely see who accesses which papers


They could already just look at Google Search popularity if that would be so interesting.


Google already has large scale surveillance of large parts of the internet thanks to their tracking cookies that are used for google analytics. They can track individual users, not just get some statistics.


People seem to generally confuse the ability to do something with the actual doing of said thing.




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