Wow
New frontier in #PublisherValueAdd
You can't look at a BMC journal website unless you accept ads and the use of your personal data, or sign up for a paid Contentpass subscription
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Correction: this applies to SpringerMedicine dot com. At Springer dot com, I can still access it without accepting tracking.
@nyhan … aaaand I will never submit an article to BMC.
Apart from anything else, "Unfortunately, we cannot offer our ad-funded service without your consent to personalized ads" is such an obvious, transparent, barefaced lie. They CHOOSE not to offer the service without personalized ads, and we all know it. Why pretend?
Screw that.
Kate Nyhan
Mike Taylor 🦕