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I think they're using some kind of heuristic approach to identify people who use the google approach regularly and put a stop to it. I know sometimes when I click on a Journal article it will let me read it, sometimes it won't. It's a tricky tactic, I'd just totally ignore Journal links otherwise. But this way they get to bug me semi-regularly instead of not at all.



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