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well they have to justify the exorbitant amount of money they charge for publicly funded science articles (apart from the obvious reason of thinking about the shareholders)
https://…/epdf/… -> https://…/pdf/…
Works for some places at least. Super infuriating though. Why use the fast native PDF viewer in the browser when you could use a bloated and buggy JS app?
No, it should obviously take you to “pay us enormous amount of money every month” page first.
Suck my InterLibraryLoan, Pearson.
That will be $30.12
Just email the author and ask for a copy
Datasheet websites do that a lot. If it’s PDF.js, Firefox’s PDF viewer (or a fork of it), I just right-click to “Show only this frame” and it goes fullscreen. It might have shenanigans such as disabled printing but you can press Ctrl+Shift+E and reload to check network activity for what address the PDF is loaded from and save that.
The worse ones are PDFs that exist only for SEO and contain nothing but keywords and a link to a paywall.
but if they just gave you pdf, how would they track every mouse movement for their bullshit metrics?
would somebody think of the advertisers?
Advertisers? Think of the managers! Managers are nothing without their metrics.
I’ll just be happy it doesn’t ask me to make an account
At least you can usually print them as PDF easily. My main issue is that the page title becomes “PDF.js Viewer - [Paper title]”.
If it’s PDF.js, it’s just Firefox’s PDF viewer (or a fork of it). I just right-click to “Show only this frame” and it goes fullscreen.
Truly. Also the springer nature ones load so slowly for absolutely no reason, and break 10% of the time. I really don’t get what their motivation is, do they think that after I’ve said no, I dont want a web version, I will be happy with a different web version?
