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>I would still rather my browser only copy the text that I visibly highlighted. It is annoying to edit content out that I have carefully selected. Absolutely.
by ArchReaper 7y ago
>I would still rather my browser only copy the text that I visibly highlighted. It is annoying to edit content out that I have carefully selected.
Absolutely. But how do we solve that problem and still allow proper usage of it? Removing this feature would break the copy ability of nearly every rich-text-like web-based UI in existence, such as Google Sheets.
Personally, this feels more like something for an adblock-like addon.
- NoodleIncident 7y agoThe 10 sites that have a genuine reason to listen to selection events and force you to copy invisible text can ask permission to do so, as suggested in the thread.
- ArchReaper 7y agoThat still does not answer the question of "what are we asking permission for?" Why that is a hard question can be understood by reading through the discussions in the OP.
- Marsymars 7y ago> Removing this feature would break the copy ability of nearly every rich-text-like web-based UI in existence, such as Google Sheets. Skipping over the technical implementation issues, I'd rather copying rich-text-like be relegated to a "Copy Rich Content" context menu action, and the default copy command be plain text only. I very seldom want to copy rich content. I very frequently am copy/pasting content to notepad, selecting it, and then copying it again in order to strip out the rich content I don't want.