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> The website you picked -- Berkshire Hathaway's -- is about as much of a "special case" website as exists on the internet.

Only tautologically.

> Also, you do realize the Berkshire Hathaway site's PDF's are especially a lot of long printable documents

In fact, I do realize what the contents of the website I referenced are. Do you have an actual argument for why even in the cases of the printable material, there's any good reason to force people to use the for-print form even when they have no need or desire to print it?

And the site doesn't even fit the characterization here. It certainly has plenty of PDFs made for print, but then it's also filled with stuff like this, which works just as well in HTML as it does as PDF, if not better:

https://berkshirehathaway.com/news/jul0820.pdf



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