Unrelated to this post at all, I’m a bit out of the loop on this, is there something wrong with PDFs? Just wondering what the PDF warning is about, this just being the first I’ve ever seen that.

Some browsers (mobile/etc) automatically download PDFs, and PDFs have had security vulnerabilities/exploits in the past

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Afaik, a pdf is safe if you don’t execute js

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