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I'd say modern websites are worse. PDFs don't keep moving under your feet while the javascript is loading. PDFs can be straightforwardly saved on your computer. PDFs don't blank out if you lose connection because of ajax. PDFs don't embed malware from third parties.


On the last point, PDFs can still embed first-party malware. E.g., https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/malicious-pdfs-revealing-te...


Or spy on you, without malware.


Modern websites spy on you by default, though.




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