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I don't get it either. CNBC has webservers and presumably some sort of in-house or external CDN. Why host on Scribd?

Embedding

Haven't all modern browsers embedded PDFs natively for ages, now?

Eg, Chrome in 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history

Firefox in 2012 http://news.softpedia.com/news/PDF-JS-and-Download-Manager-P...

I don't want to sign up to read a document either, thanks.

Looking back on this, I meant download.

As long as the server sends "Content-Disposition: inline", the browser should use its own PDF renderer (unless it doesn't have one, but I think that's rare these days).

Odd, I can see all 26 pages. I'm not signed up.

There's probably a pay wall after a certain amount of page visits. The other users should clear that cookie.