

As reported by the BBC, Yahoo have reached a deal with Adobe that allows them to place adverts in a panel inside Adobe Reader. This is the first time that Adobe have allowed dynamic adverts inside their software.

Luckily, there is a myriad of alternatives now that the PDF format has been opened including:

For Windows:

For Linux:

Evince

gPDF (Part of Gnome)

KPDF (Part of KDE)

Okular

Xpdf

For Mac OS X

Skim

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So, for the more computer literate of us, this won’t make a lot of difference anyway.