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Copy & paste some text from this article. Notice anything funny?
- aphyr 17y agoNope. I use select/middle-click to copy/paste. :)
- est 17y agoI am drag & drop
- twopoint718 17y agoYeah I didn't notice what people were talking about for a bit. I almost always use highlight + middle-click. This: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html is an interesting article about the different avenues that text can take under X.
- vColin 17y ago37Signals covered this or something similar: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2087-smart-pasting-at-the-new-yorker-site http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2087-smart-pasting-at-the-new.... Tynt (http://www.tynt.com/ http://www.tynt.com/) was the "culprit" in that case and looks so here.
- bmelton 17y agoIn case anybody else doesn't see it immediately (it took me a couple of tries) -- the 'funny' bit is that it automagically appends "Read More: <link>" to your selection. I haven't pored through their code, but I already know that my initial suspicion (binding CTRL+C with JS) isn't accurate, as right-clicking -> copy also appends it. It's interesting at the very least, and I don't know how they're doing it. Anybody have an idea?
- sounddust 17y agoIn fact, your initial suspicion seems to be correct after a (very quick) glance at the code. They are handling both of those cases separately. http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js
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- steveklabnik 17y agoI didn't notice because I highlighted + middle clicked.
- roc 17y agoNope. Thanks NoScript!
- tyrelb 17y agoUsing NoScript, do you block ALL .js files, or just selected ones? Doesn't NoScript / using no .js break many web 2.0 ajax sites?
- Seiwynn 17y agoIt initially blocks all, and you can choose to allow js from domains on a case by case basis. For example, on the Hacker News main page, i allow js from ycombinator.com and forbid js from co2stats.com
- mikeryan 17y agoBecause you're against HN offsetting it's carbon footprint?
- gojomo 17y agoDoesn't loading the extra co2stats script and image from each page use more energy/carbon? What's more, it reloads itself every 5 minutes, even with no activity by the user! Carbon preacher hypocrites! They probably heat their homes with coal-fired Franklin stoves, too.
- mikeryan 17y agoYes But its all offset - so that makes it okay! ;-P
- jrockway 17y agoNo, because he doesn't want random code running on his machine if it doesn't benefit him in any way. Personally, I block Google Analytics, because fuck Google tracking me on every site I go to.
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- dminio 17y agoDidn't notice anything. NoScript is my friend, I guess.
- vais 17y agoDoes not do anything funny on the iPhone (tried both the mobile and regular version of the site).
- ronnier 17y agoPolitico.com does the same thing: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32217.html http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32217.html
- ComputerGuru 17y agoNothing happening here with select + ctrl+C on Chrome/Mac.
- andre 17y agoIf you're interested, here's how to do it: http://brooknovak.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/accessing-the-system-clipboard-with-javascript/ http://brooknovak.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/accessing-the-sys...
- cduruk 17y agoI think they do it by adding a div right under the selected text.
- decklin 17y agoNope; I'm using https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epieehnpcepgfiildhdklacomihpoldk https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/epieehnpcepgfiil....
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- gnoupi 17y agoNope, I use Opera ;)
- headShrinker 17y agoI noticed that the article tried to make a call to ads.techvibes.com:80, but Little Snitch reported it and I denied it.
- adamse 17y agoWell, it is probably for ads and doesn't have anything to do with this item.
- callmeed 17y agoThe Chronicle does this too. Copy from any article inside www.sfgate.com and it does the same. FYI, works in Chrome/Mac for me.
- chrischen 17y agoNothing on the iPhone!
- Goladus 17y agoThis is actually pretty handy. On the one hand, javascript that messes with the user like this strikes me as unethical (it really angers me when basic functionality is usurped like this), this one would actually save me time in the long run. Usually when I copy/paste text from an article on one tab to a form on another, I also copy and paste the link as well. Usually that involves two trips to the article's tab. I wouldn't have to do that with this article.
- Groxx 17y agoI agree, I typically despise this sort of thing, though not as much as right-click hijacking (with a few exceptions). This one is useful, though, and it makes a LOT of sense to have on a news-like website (lots of people don't include attribution, this makes including it the easiest option, thus more will include it).
- tyntguy 17y agoYes, that is us, Tynt (www.tynt.com) on all the sites mentioned. Our analytics are tracking hundreds of thousands of sites worldwide. The attribution link feature is something that individual site owners can turn on and off. Also note that we don't track any personally identifiable information. We track content and help publishers learn what content of theirs people are finding most engaging. What if I don’t want this behavior? We are currently working on a global opt out for users who would rather not have Tynt monitor their actions when they visit a site. In the interim you can opt out on a site by site basis (i.e. the opt out for the SF Gate is here: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/faq.shtml#faq1.5#ixzz0bxLIAbL7 http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/faq.shtml#faq1.5#ixzz0bxLIAb... More info on Tynt is available in our FAQs here: http://www1.tynt.com/faq-technical-topics#ixzz0bxGzIgPZ http://www1.tynt.com/faq-technical-topics#ixzz0bxGzIgPZ
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoJust curious...how did you find this story on HN so quickly?
- sucuri2 17y agoHe replied 2 hours after... Not so quickly.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoPretty fast if you're being mentioned all over the web and you're not already a HN user (he just signed up for that comment), AND neither the story linked to or the title on HN said anything about Tynt or what they do.
- emilam 17y agoSomeone mentioned tynt in an earlier comment
- tdmackey 17y agoI imagine a surge of users from news.yc set off a few flags considering their product is intended to monitor this sort of thing.
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- blhack 17y agoHuffington post does the same thing with their article headlines. Users are always copy/pasting them into the story submission fields on a website I run. It's very very annoying.
- jayair 17y agoI've noticed this behavior on quite a few sites recently. It was annoying since I was trying to quote a bunch of sites and I had to remove the links at the end every time. Now it makes me double check every time I copy and paste. At first thought this might not seem too bad but modifying basic user behavior should be frowned upon.
- keefe 17y agonothing special happened for me
- barrkel 17y agoI didn't notice anything. Then again, I have tynt adblocked.
- Luyt 17y agoNothing unusual observed. I browse with Javascript off, btw.
- mtarnovan 17y agoI was expecting to see an attribution link, but it didn't work. I don't block JS or anything; turns out this doesn't work if you copy-paste via drag-drop.
- JshWright 17y agoView Source -> Copy at will
- jodrellblank 17y agoCopy & paste some text from this article. Notice anything funny? No? (Thanks, http://www.ghostery.com/ http://www.ghostery.com/ !)
- sliverstorm 17y agoAm I the only one who isn't scared of all files ending in .js? I think it's kind of cool. Possibilities are already popping into my head. This could in the future make citations and references really easy, for starters! Tick an option, or copy with a certain key set, and bam you have the quote and an IEEE-style citations entry in the paste buffer.
- _delirium 17y agoHmm, doesn't seem to be able to insert anything into the typical X11 middle-click-paste mechanism. It does insert the URL if I use Gnome's ctrl+c/ctrl+v, but I never use that.
- Volscio 17y agoHere's my Google doc on how to disable clipboard hijacking on certain sites: https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASuZYyoQwvDoZGdqYnY5cndfMTNkdHNkZzUycQ&hl=en https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASuZYyoQwvDoZGdqYnY5cndfM... Accepting tips, suggestions, additions of other offending sites...
- jrockway 17y agoDoesn't seem to work in w3m-el.
- seejay 17y agoNope! :P what does it do?
- bryanalves 17y agoI didn't notice anything either. I had to go and read the rest of the comments here to see what was actually supposed to happen. Although, these comments did serve as a remindeer for me to give NoScript a chance again.