Your comment suggests that women are so fragile that even a comment that suggests that it’s somehow impossible/unconventional for women to achieve what Sci-Hub did will suddenly discourage women from building projects like this.
This wipes out all the good Google has done in my eyes (and there's plenty of it, e.g. Project Gutenberg). They could have at least issued a statement of support.
With an account? I hears (Re)Vanced is a thing.. But it's a gamble whether its been broken by Google updating APIs at this point.
NewPipe is great for using YouTube without an account. I much prefer having my subs and playlists stored locally instead of by Google (restoring the exported backup file if I have to move devices).
Why is pirating not the way if the system is making no effort to change it and any change the system would try to make would be solely to the benefit of companies like Elsevier?
Until we have solid open access mandates, pirating seems to be the way.
Google scholar with automatic PDF lookup is of course another part of the way.
As a legal stopgap measure, someone could create journal-matic which scrapes the table of contents of each journal issue (or set of conference proceedings) and links it to PDFs from the authors' personal web sites.
I note that USENIX has had open access for years. It's disappointing that ACM and IEEE still view their digital libraries as cash cows to be milked to pay for unrelated expenses.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 83.2 ms ] threadWe're living its least believable preductions today, and it aired before the Internet caught on.
That show is hugely underrated.
Comments like this are a part of the problem.
I have no love for Google, but even I am not going to blame them for not defying an FBI warrant.
If they fought it and lost, they could pledge her legal services. They can trivially afford it, so should.
According to https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?hl=...
They received 186,126 user data requests in the U.S. and 252,092 globally in 2020.
We need a better way.
Authenticity as desired. Anonymity as needed. No confusing the two.
Please do what you can to help Alexandra and the Sci-Hub crew. https://sci-hub.se/donate
NewPipe is great for using YouTube without an account. I much prefer having my subs and playlists stored locally instead of by Google (restoring the exported backup file if I have to move devices).
Google scholar with automatic PDF lookup is of course another part of the way.
As a legal stopgap measure, someone could create journal-matic which scrapes the table of contents of each journal issue (or set of conference proceedings) and links it to PDFs from the authors' personal web sites.
I note that USENIX has had open access for years. It's disappointing that ACM and IEEE still view their digital libraries as cash cows to be milked to pay for unrelated expenses.
Anti-Human, yes. But Google is the American dream