Unpaywall Journals

[walterbell]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpaywall/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha?hl=en

[underyx]

I see no reason this should request full access to all sites I visit. Why not just trigger it with an extension bar button? I'm definitely not allowing extensions access to my email and banking sites.

[asdfman123 → underyx]

If you install it, you can specify an option to read and change site data only when you click on it.

It is optimized for the lazy 95% of web users.

[ct0]

Firefox alt available? I don't use Chrome much anymore

[_ylmx → ct0]

Yes, it is here [1].

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpaywall/

[chasedehan]

Just use Google Scholar - it aggregates across all versions and you can typically find a working paper version pdf no problem.

No reason to add an extension.

[jjulius → chasedehan]

>Just use Google Scholar...

>No reason to add an extension.

There is a fair number of people who want to de-Google their lives, this would work great for them (the Firefox version was linked to elsewhere in this thread).

[shujito]

while you're at it, disable javascript on sites that shows popups if it detects that you're blocking ads (not just with an adblocker)