Fonts embedded by default in PDFs?

When looking at the properties of the generated PDF, I can see the following: 
(this is the result of the linux command 'pdffonts') 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>
name type emb sub uni object ID

--- --- ---

NEBPBA+Arial-BoldMT CID TrueType yes yes yes 3 0
DLJSMF+ArialMT CID TrueType yes yes yes 4 0
HQQNRR+Arial-BoldItalicMT CID TrueType yes yes yes 11 0
</pre>
 
Is it normal that fonts are embedded? 
Looks strange to me. I want to avoid that each generated pdf is bigger because of those fonts.

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swerlen

I changed font to Helvetica (which is very similar to Arial) and fonts are not embedded any more.