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> The worst is that so many event flyers and things, even important local government information will just be dumped online as a pdf Well, they could have uplo

> The worst is that so many event flyers and things, even important local government information will just be dumped online as a pdf Well, they could have uploaded it to some online service that shows the document in the browser as an undownloadable but browsable thingy (I don't even know what to call that, and I am definitely not going give any publicity to the online service by spelling out the name)

totetsu 6y ago
One certain online service (the one that lets you look at advertisements and fake new while you talk to your Aunt) is very popular for sharing events. On mobile they go out of their way to disable the ability to copy text. Even with the "copy" app set as my assist app, it seems to block or muck up the scrapping of text from the screen. I have to go to mbasic.thissite.com (which doesn't include all the same content) to get things in plain text. It's a real barrier to my participation in society where there are characters in the text I cant read, and I just want to copy them to a translate app.. It also made me late for a Teams based interview, as I foolishly tried to pass the join link between phones using this webpage, and couldn't copy it on the other end.
- canofbars 6y ago
  On android or at least pixels, go in to the app switcher mode and with the app still on screen, copy the text. This uses OCR to copy and you can even copy text from screenshots.
- rietta 6y ago
  I pretty much only access said website in Firefox with the extension that puts it in a jail. The mobile app is useless for anything but posting photos of the kids for the grandparents and aunts to see. Same app implements seriously dark patterns to get users to install their messenger app. Said chat works in the desktop web browser but not a mobile browser. I shall never install it on my phone. Mobile presents as if you have pending messages even when you don't (inbox empty on the web version).
  - joshuaissac 6y ago
    You can use mbasic.thissite.com and it lets you use chat features from mobile browsers.
sokoloff 6y ago
When I read the first half of your comment, I thought you were cleverly describing and would pivot at the end to suggest HTML and web servers.

totetsu 6y ago

One certain online service (the one that lets you look at advertisements and fake new while you talk to your Aunt) is very popular for sharing events. On mobile they go out of their way to disable the ability to copy text. Even with the "copy" app set as my assist app, it seems to block or muck up the scrapping of text from the screen. I have to go to mbasic.thissite.com (which doesn't include all the same content) to get things in plain text. It's a real barrier to my participation in society where there are characters in the text I cant read, and I just want to copy them to a translate app.. It also made me late for a Teams based interview, as I foolishly tried to pass the join link between phones using this webpage, and couldn't copy it on the other end.

canofbars 6y ago
On android or at least pixels, go in to the app switcher mode and with the app still on screen, copy the text. This uses OCR to copy and you can even copy text from screenshots.
rietta 6y ago
I pretty much only access said website in Firefox with the extension that puts it in a jail. The mobile app is useless for anything but posting photos of the kids for the grandparents and aunts to see. Same app implements seriously dark patterns to get users to install their messenger app. Said chat works in the desktop web browser but not a mobile browser. I shall never install it on my phone. Mobile presents as if you have pending messages even when you don't (inbox empty on the web version).
- joshuaissac 6y ago
  You can use mbasic.thissite.com and it lets you use chat features from mobile browsers.

sokoloff 6y ago

When I read the first half of your comment, I thought you were cleverly describing and would pivot at the end to suggest HTML and web servers.