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How to remove tracking metadata from my PDF

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I have some good PDF ebooks I’m willing to share, but I suspect the seller embeds some tracking data in them to link them to my account, as every time I download them from the official website they have a different hash while being visually identical. The same when checking against the copies a friend bought from the same seller. Since I dont wanna get banned, can you recommend a way to remove that stuff?

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tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social
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Perhaps printing to pdf may work

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arr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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gh0stkey@lemmy.world
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Wow… The amount of information already being shared here is outstanding! Keep on rowing/patching mates

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CanOpener@sh.itjust.works
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If you’re on Linux, Metadata Cleaner might work. https://flathub.org/apps/fr.romainvigier.MetadataCleaner

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