There's no denying the site itself is a bit shady, most of my IP addresses are blocked. I find myself using researchgate hosted full text pdfs pretty regularly

There's no denying the site itself is a bit shady, most of my IP addresses are blocked. I find myself using researchgate hosted full text pdfs pretty regularly the last handful of years. At least a few times a month. This is far better than there being no pdfs at all. I don't really care about how researchgate tries to run their site beyond this.