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Websites should stop hiding vital information in PDFs (eftegarie.com)
3 points by amin on July 29, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



It's definitely intentional. The PDFs aren't searchable, either unless they've been OCR'd, which keeps their contents from being surfaced even in that website's own search.

I was looking for Whataburger's ingredients the other day and got sent to a PDF. The link says Nutritional Information & Ingredients. Does the PDF have ingredients? No. You're just SOL.




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