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Note that this is a new feature for Firefox's PDF reader, but not a new feature of PDFs in general. Adobe had to update reader back in like... 2008?... to prom
by lmkg 6y ago
Note that this is a new feature for Firefox's PDF reader, but not a new feature of PDFs in general.
Adobe had to update reader back in like... 2008?... to prompt before loading external resources. Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs.
- bassdropvroom 6y ago> Because companies were embedding Google Analytics into PDFs. Wow! This is daft. Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole because I never realised this. And if I hadn't blocked Google Analytics there, this would have been a sad state of affairs.
- bassdropvroom 6y ago> Thank the FLOSS gods for things like Pi-Hole Can't edit my comment any more, but I realise this is quite dismissive of the work the real maintainers have put in. So I'll thank them instead!
- djrogers 6y agoThat's not dismissive, you just called them gods!
- tjoff 6y agoI bet the real reason for that was because it could then compete with adobes own analytics built into the reader.