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by account42 1803 days ago
> With HTML, I have to trust that some random entity does what they state in their privacy policy, and they regularly don't. Sure, I can disable JS, but then 95% of the web doesn't work anymore.

If you only allow PDF, then 99.9999% of the web doesn't work anymore.

I'm all for getting sites to be static, but PDF doesn't fix that because the problem has never been the technology used to build the site.