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malf

I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?

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Whether or not to open on a mobile device? I usually don't open PDFs on a mobile because it is a pain to read.

PDF's also present privacy and security risks (the question's old but answers been updated):

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72037/what-are-...

Many HTMLs have the same issue

“Reading mode” usually solves this with HTML

Who said anything about painful? HN posts that are direct downloads for pdf files are universally marked with [pdf]. Either because the poster remembered to do so, or because the title gets edited after the fact.

This is not an article, it's a download, and should be marked as such.

It's only a download if your browser chooses not to display it. On Chrome, it's just another tab among tabs; you can choose to save to a file if you want.

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