I don't know why, but when I use Elsevier translator, the human-machine verification pops up all the time. This seriously affects the use. Can the translator be improved to avoid this problem?
Important question here: does Zotero properly capture the reference (and PDF if you have access) when you resolve the captcha? Just checking whether I understand your situation correctly.
Yes, in Edge, you can capture the PDF correctly after complete the human-machine verification. But in Google Chrome, the human-machine verification will keep looping (circling), specifically, the human-machine verification will circle, there is no confirmation button or after clicking the confirmation successfully, the page will refresh and ask you to reconfirm. It can't be completed, and so you can't get the PDF. But the most troublesome thing is that when these two browsers capture PDF, each human-machine verification is too cumbersome. This situation only occurs in Elsevier (ScienceDirect). Elsevier is almost the largest publisher in the world, which undoubtedly kills the acquisition of a large number of papers.
Well, Elsevier certainly designed this mechanism precisely in order to prevent the acquisition of a large number of papers. Massive downloads are generally forbidden by the license contracts, and technical work-arounds would be quite risky in my opinion.
Regarding the verification loop: after the most recent "improvements" by Elsevier, the Zotero developers have spent months getting the connector to work reliably as you observe on Edge (and myself on Firefox, I'm happy to say). Something is still not quite right with Chrome but the developers are working on it, see https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/109940/zotero-is-not-saving-pdfs-from-sciencedirect/p3
I am very sorry that you misunderstood my meaning. It is unethical to obtain documents in bulk at once. But what I want to emphasize is the necessity of Elsevier's translator optimization. As the largest supplier, if Elsevier cannot easily obtain PDFs, it will affect a large number of documents (because a large number of documents are published by it).
The Chrome extension is just behind the others, because the latest version hasn’t been approved by Google yet, and doesn’t have the latest enhancements to try to work around the aggressive anti-bot measures on ScienceDirect. Wait for 5.0.171 and test again.
Regarding the verification loop: after the most recent "improvements" by Elsevier, the Zotero developers have spent months getting the connector to work reliably as you observe on Edge (and myself on Firefox, I'm happy to say). Something is still not quite right with Chrome but the developers are working on it, see https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/109940/zotero-is-not-saving-pdfs-from-sciencedirect/p3