Adobe cancels in-PDF advertising program

I'm not particularly shocked by the decision. First of all, I have to say, I didn't exactly run across many PDF files online that were making use of the technology. And second, it wasn't particularly hard to avoid the ads if you wanted to. So I can't imagine anyone was getting getting rich here.
Publishers will no longer be able to upload ad-enabled documents after January 16th, and ads embedded in existing documents will stop displaying after March 31st.
[via Digital Inspiration]
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numerwan said 10:19AM on 1-14-2009
Its bad enough Reader is so bloated... I use Foxit thanks to DownloadSquad's suggestion... It opens and closes PDFs in seconds...
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Jash Sayani said 10:41AM on 1-14-2009
Nice realization... If they displayed Ads, BitTorrent would have a large traffic for Adobe Reader....
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