[windsurfer]

A free account on Adobe Acrobat online can sign PDFs, you don't need to have any kind of subscription. I'm not sure why the author felt they needed to subscribe if they were just signing PDFs. https://documentcloud.adobe.com

[bachmeier]

I know there's a tendency to trust Adobe because they're a large company, but how do you know what they're doing with your data? How do you know what they'll do with it at any time in the future? Is the other party okay with giving them your data? What if they decide to sell your data in the future?

Sure, you could presumably try to get to the bottom of this, but it's easier to just use a local option.

[tlarkworthy]

That's a network service (I don't want Adobe reading my financial docs) and also was not around when they ripped me off in 2018.

[smnrchrds]

I first read it as that too. But upon more careful reading, I understood what he meant is that since Adobe has bad subscription practices, he doesn't want to use any Adobe products, even free ones. This type of signing (image signature as opposed to cryptographic signature) is supported in free Adobe Reader software too, on all platforms, including Android.