Adobe Acrobat
PDF is an open standard. The reader charges rent.
Adobe created PDF and then published it: since 2008 it has been ISO 32000, an open standard anyone may implement. Acrobat's subscription buys you editing and signing on top of a format that is not itself proprietary — which is exactly why the alternatives below can do the same job.
What you are replacing (2)
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Adobe Acrobat ↗
San Jose, California.
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Smallpdf ↗
Zurich — Swiss, so already European if you want the simplest switch.
European alternatives (5)
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PDF24 ↗
Geek Software, Berlin. Free, and the desktop version never uploads your file.
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Stirling PDF ↗
Open source and self-hostable: run every tool on your own machine.
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PDFsam ↗
Split and merge, open source, from an Italian developer.
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LibreOffice Draw ↗
The Document Foundation, Berlin. Edits PDFs directly and costs nothing.
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Xodo ↗
Annotation and editing, now part of Swiss-based Apryse.
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