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Congratulations, Silicon Valley, you fucked up the web so bad folks are turning to PDFs.
Take a fucking bow.
@aral At least PDF is an open standard, I suppose, and not an opaque proprietary blob.
It's like the old days of Microsoft's website publisher, which just turned each page into a single big image.
@aral In the article, they dismiss just not using that bad parts, and honestly, I don't understand. (Same reason I don't really understand Gemini) Why can't a site owner just not use the bad tracking parts?
Can't someone just set up a site, html3 or so, not embed Javascript, and tracking and all of the parts that they thing that they're avoiding with Gemini or, now PDF?
@aral I kinda like the epub export approach some people offer. The real™ "read later" solution I mean 
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Isn't it more the other way round - PDF is getting really really good at its job of being a reliable portable document format?
@aral you coocoo