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The article is talking about companies that hijack information for themselves, and I see a link for scribd. It seems that things will not change so soon.
by drakstieg 15y ago
The article is talking about companies that hijack information for themselves, and I see a link for scribd. It seems that things will not change so soon.
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- cs702 15y agoFWIW, the URL I submitted points to a file on Scott Aaronson's personal website... I'm not sure how the scribd link was added to the title. UPDATE: HTML version available here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html
- antics 15y agoThe scribd link appears anytime you submit a PDF directly. This was/is useful for people who hate downloading PDFs, since scribd does not require this. Of course, a lot of us (myself included) use Chrome, which allows you to open PDFs inline...
- LearnYouALisp 15y agoYou may also view PDFs within the Firefox browser with the Acrobat or Foxit plug-ins.
- SilasX 15y agoFrom what I remember, the scribd side is even flakier than opening a PDF in your browser. And I'm not too keen on this "push our dogfood on readers" policy, either...
- CrazedGeek 15y agoHN automatically adds Scribd links to PDF links (because Scribd was part of YC S06).