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Scribd Inc. owns 3 of the biggest and oldest file and document hosting platforms on the internet: Scribd for documents, SlideShare and Everand. | {{Incomplete}} | ||
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|Founded=2007 | |||
|Industry=Cloud | |||
|Logo=Scribd.svg | |||
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|Type=Private | |||
|Website=https://www.scribd.com | |||
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'''[[Wikipedia:Scribd|Scribd Inc.]]''' is a digital document library founded in 2007 by Jared Friedman, [[wikipedia:Trip_Adler|Trip Adler]], and [[wikipedia:Tikhon_Bernstam|Tikhon Bernstam]]. It owns 3 of the biggest and oldest file and document hosting platforms on the internet: Scribd for documents, SlideShare and Everand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About - Scribd, Inc. |url=https://www.scribdinc.com/about |url-status=live |website=[[Scribd]], Inc.}}([http://web.archive.org/web/20260222001340/https://www.scribd.com/about Archived])</ref> | |||
==Incidents== | |||
===Trial period=== | |||
Scribd gatekeeps documents uploaded by their users, which Scribd does not own and did not create, behind a login wall. | Scribd gatekeeps documents uploaded by their users, which Scribd does not own and did not create, behind a login wall. | ||
[[File:Scribd forced download.png|thumb|Scribd forces their free trial onto users who want to download documents]] | [[File:Scribd forced download.png|thumb|Scribd forces their free trial onto users who want to download documents]] | ||
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[[File:Scribd credit card page.png|thumb|Scribd free trial subscription page that tries to capture users' credit card information. Scribd practices a classic predatory scheme that relies on users forgetting to cancel and getting billed every month.]] | [[File:Scribd credit card page.png|thumb|Scribd free trial subscription page that tries to capture users' credit card information. Scribd practices a classic predatory scheme that relies on users forgetting to cancel and getting billed every month.]] | ||
This is a classic predatory "get your credit card details and hope you forget to cancel so they can charge you" scheme. | This is a classic predatory "get your credit card details and hope you forget to cancel so they can charge you" scheme. | ||
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