The Adobe Acrobat Reader download is just an installer. This installer will lead to a much larger download that includes the Reader as well as the Yahoo! Toolbar and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition. These items will download, however, upon installation you can opt-out of them.
The installer stub will force you to download unwanted toolbars and programs. Plus, it also installs Adobe Download Manager (ADM), which I do not want or need. Worse, ADM has a critical security hole, which even Adobe admits to.
Fortunately, the folks over at The Software Patch have figured out the latest direct FTP link to the Reader download:
http://www.softwarepatch.com/graphics/acrobatreader7.html
As I write this, the link is:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/8.x/8.1.2/enu/AdbeRdr812_en_US.exe
If you obtain Adobe Reader via this link, you won't have to install ADM or other useless stuff. But this link will become outdated when there is a new version, so check back at The Software Patch for the latest. BTW, they host many other patches, upgrades, service packs and hardware drivers too.
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Acrobat Reader 9.4.0 (20100923)
FTP Direct Link
the link is now: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.1/en_US/AdbeRdr1001_en_US.exe
and you appear at the top of google! :-)
You are right that Adobe insists that it can only be downloaded from its own servers.The Adobe Acrobat Reader download is just an installer. These items will download, however, upon installation we can opt-out of them.The installer stub will force you to download unwanted toolbars and programs.
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