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Agreed, it's really excessive to take simple text content and trap it within a PDF that's then trapped inside Scribd, which requires a Scribd account and login to download.



Scribd is a YC company. What you're experiencing is called "growth hacking".


When i stumble upon it from time to time, scribd is the strange thing that wants to stand between me and information. This is very annoying.




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