Your resume is a PDF. Recruiters want a link. Am I wrong?

I'm a solo maker and I just spent a few months building resume tools, so I've been staring at this problem too long to see it straight. Genuine question for this crowd:

When you apply somewhere, do you send a PDF, a link to a personal site, both — or does it not matter anymore?

What pushed me here: every "AI resume builder" I tried wanted my email before it showed me anything, then quietly uploaded my resume to their server. That felt backwards for a document full of my address, phone number, and work history. So I built the opposite — everything runs in the browser, the PDF never leaves your machine — and along the way I kept adding tools (PDF → personal site, GitHub username → portfolio, an ATS "how a robot reads your resume" score, bullet rewriter). 11 of them now, all free, no signup.

But I keep second-guessing the core bet: that people actually WANT a viberesume.in/theirname link instead of just a clean PDF.

So — two things I'd love this community's honest read on:

1. Link vs PDF vs both — what do you actually send in 2026?

2. Would you trust a browser-only tool with your resume, or does "nothing is uploaded" not even register as a benefit anymore?

Not looking for upvotes — looking for arguments. Roast the premise.