No, it should obviously take you to “pay us enormous amount of money every month” page first.

Oh boy, I sure am excited to websites hosting PDFs! I love when the tool that everyone uses for hosting and viewing HTML get to be blessed with the perfect format that is PDF!

I LOVE PDFS! I love two column PDFs! I love reading like this!

1 3
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Instead of like this

1
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It’s amazing and such a good user experience!

I love that PDFs are so difficult to transform into HTML, too. I would never want the besmirch the publishers oerfect one approved layout by resizing the window!

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?

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)

Or a virus. It could be an exciting virus.

nothing beats having to click the download button twice. it’s my favorite

PDF button? Or time to create an account to get a subscription to access that PDF!

Honestly, i prefer a native renderer over a XSS-plagued js.