21. Google Scholar will deny access to you if you (need to) self-host a VPN on a common VPS provider. Being a Google product, it also can’t be special-cased in your routing table. (I genuinely had to retrain myself to use Google Scholar again once I no longer had that need.)
22. Switching on sort by date will impose a filter to papers published within the year, and you cannot do anything about that.
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