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      Mans really just typed the URL from the address bar without applying any critical thinking.

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        Oh, I followed additional links and advice from comments throughout the entire thread. None lead me to an actual PDF document (save for catbox), all lead me to either an Invalid Format error, or a page trying to force me to login to Google and confirm my age and identification.

        The link itself isn’t even a PDF, it’s an HTML document, confirmed via hex editor, forcing me to login, which I don’t and won’t do.

        A PDF link shouldn’t download an HTML document, that’s basically a bait and switch tactic, coming from the government themselves.

        Whatever happened to transparency? 🤔

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            Hence why I asked other people for alternate links that might actually work. The catbox link from user trashcan actually works.

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          I downloaded it, the pdf is legit. Yours might have gotten corrupted during download, or the PDF viewer you are using is struggling with something in the document. Its all there though.

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              Or maybe I’m 43 years old (fact), and just don’t care to sign into Google anymore.

              You’d figure a PDF document link might actually take you to a PDF document and not do the bait and switch with an HTML document…

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            That’s nice. Can anyone provide a version of the document that like doesn’t require signing into Google?

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              This doesn’t ask to sign into google for me. If your Browser is forcing that then install Firefox or an alternate browser than chrome.

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              Maybe try in a different browser or device because I don’t think it has that requirement. Unless it accepts existing login cookies (which it should not without explicitly stating).

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                I use Fennec, a fork of Firefox, and I’m not logged into a damn thing on Fennec. Yeah that might largely be the problem, but I ain’t about to login to Google on my mobile devices anymore…

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                  The archive org link I tried doesn’t seem to work. Do you have an alternative file hoster you trust that I could use?

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            Ah, I found the problem. That’s not a PDF document at all, that’s an HTML document that’s attempting to prompt me for my age.

            Get your links right homie, that’s not a PDF at all.

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              It is a pdf link but there is an intercept script that does the age verification. Once you have said yes once, the PDF links then just directly lead to the PDFs.

              But I don’t understand why you are promted for Google sign in, I tried on Vanadium and Firefox and there was no google stuff.

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                don’t understand why you are promted for Google sign in

                It’s simple. They weren’t prompted to login to Google. They are a liar and a weirdo. My only guess is they want other people to not read the PDF so they think they’re discouraging people from trying.

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              But it’s a very surface level prompt. Is it just me that has instinctively selected the “I’m over 18” button without thinking long before that was true?

              They don’t ask verification as far as I know. It’s the US gov so you’re correct to be cautious. I didn’t try in a “private” tab.

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                No no no, I had to open the downloaded ‘PDF’ to my device, then open it with a hex editor, to discover it was actually in HTML format, to request my age and ID first.

                The page never outright even loaded, I just discovered that because I know how to use a hex editor. The page never loaded properly in either format, neither PDF nor HTML.

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            Ah yes, the magical answer to everything. Doesn’t work for me, invalid format.

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                That’s fantastic, for everyone else I guess.

                Why am I prompted to sign into Google to even view it though?

                My mobile devices have never been signed into Google, and I ain’t about to break from that personal rule to view documents on a dead pervert and his associates.

                Is there a version of this document that can be viewed with a proper FOSS PDF app?

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                  Why am I prompted to sign into Google to even view it though?

                  You aren’t. Websites don’t randomly pick out a singular person to insert a login process that wouldn’t make the slightest bit of sense at all.

                  The only explanation here is that you’re lying your ass off.

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                  Why am I prompted to sign into Google to even view it though?

                  That a good question and one I’m willing to troubleshoot with you. In the meantime what’s your preferred file hoster?I can upload the pdf for you.