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by hack37 4699 days ago
Talking about privacy. Why use services like Scribd ? A simple link to the pdf file hosted somewhere else would have suffice. I then can do my searches locally without them tracking exactly what I do (who views what, who searches what). SASS (Service as Software Substitute) is evil...
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And even if you trust scribd isn't it just a usability nightmare or am I missing something?
Links to PDFs are converted to scribd links. Scribd is a YCombinator company.