search

jimmejardine / qiqqa-open-source

The open-sourced version of the award-winning Qiqqa research management tool for Windows
GNU General Public License v3.0
374 stars 61 forks source link

ResearchGate barfs a hairball on PDF download #241

Closed GerHobbelt closed 3 years ago

GerHobbelt commented 3 years ago

First one of the day, i.e. not downloaded anything from there in the days leading up to this minute:

image

Reeks like #2 kicking in another way...

GerHobbelt commented 3 years ago

A!-HA! 🥳

I'm running these tests through a VPN (https://nordvpn.com/) and was popping up through their Amsterdam node, which apparently has been blocked (temporarily) by ResearchGate as switching to the Germany exit node 'fixed' this issue, which was reproducible on my regular (modern) browsers: MS Edge, Chrome and WaterFox.

🤦

This shows the counter-example I always expected to happen for the Qiqqa Sniffer workaround (#113) which has been floating around for years: use a VPN. That's not a fix, merely a go-around for as long as you are very lucky (which never lasts long 😉 )

Theoretically, that would be aggravating the situation for the lump sum, i.e. for all of ye as any VPN cannot have as many 'exit nodes' as it will have users, so the number of IP addresses requests are coming from, when using a VPN, will be fewer rather than more, making it easier for this kind of paywall/membership-checks in site code to deliver a positive and block you. Anyway... My 2 cents.

GerHobbelt commented 3 years ago

Closing as this is not solvable by Qiqqa. (switch IP address was the 'answer' here)