Comments on: Yahoo! Goes Overboard, Signs Deal With Adobe To Display Ads In Users’ PDFs http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/ Internet news and commentary Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:45:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Leslie Poston http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/#comment-64811 Leslie Poston Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:51:08 +0000 http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/#comment-64811 That's one way to make me quit Adobe AND Yahell. That’s one way to make me quit Adobe AND Yahell.

]]> By: John Dowdell http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/#comment-63631 John Dowdell Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:37:19 +0000 http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/#comment-63631 "[Why did Adobe offer the option?]" Lots of publishers already insert static ads in their digital periodicals to recoup their production costs. This system is a little easier. (The system is based on Adobe Reader 8.1 or better... if you have an older or off-brand PDF client you won't see see them and won't help the publisher's compensation. The ads are in the Reader chrome, not in the PDF document itself. The ad-blocking is easier than in browsers, should you wish: just click "No don't connect" and "Remember my choice".) jd/adobe “[Why did Adobe offer the option?]”

Lots of publishers already insert static ads in their digital periodicals to recoup their production costs. This system is a little easier.

(The system is based on Adobe Reader 8.1 or better… if you have an older or off-brand PDF client you won’t see see them and won’t help the publisher’s compensation. The ads are in the Reader chrome, not in the PDF document itself. The ad-blocking is easier than in browsers, should you wish: just click “No don’t connect” and “Remember my choice”.)

jd/adobe

]]> By: Isabella J Mori http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/#comment-62761 Isabella J Mori Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:44:59 +0000 http://profy.com/2007/11/29/yahoo-goes-overboard-signs-deal-with-adobe-to-display-ads-in-users-pdfs/#comment-62761 My first comment: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Yuck! Gross! My second comment: Remember way back in - I don't know what it was, 1998 maybe - Adobe was actually one of the first non-Microsoft companies that wormed itself into our lives. It made SURE that you had to use it and nothing else to read PDFs, and has been very successful with this. So I'm not surprised. I try to use the Firefox PDF as much as possible (ie when Adobe doesn't muscle itself back in again, which happens way too often) - but isn't it interesting, I can't even think of the name of the Firefox PDF right now. Figures. Ok, now back to my first comment: Yuck! My first comment: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Yuck! Gross!

My second comment: Remember way back in - I don’t know what it was, 1998 maybe - Adobe was actually one of the first non-Microsoft companies that wormed itself into our lives. It made SURE that you had to use it and nothing else to read PDFs, and has been very successful with this. So I’m not surprised. I try to use the Firefox PDF as much as possible (ie when Adobe doesn’t muscle itself back in again, which happens way too often) - but isn’t it interesting, I can’t even think of the name of the Firefox PDF right now. Figures.

Ok, now back to my first comment: Yuck!

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