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this page does a window.alert if you try to control+c anything

• aendruk 5y ago
  It uses <body oncontextmenu="alert('Contact the webmaster for copying requests'); return false;"> which, needless to say, is absurd. I don’t think there’s much you can do about the alert, but you can configure Firefox to ignore the return value by disabling `dom.event.contextmenu.enabled`.
  • antiterra 5y ago
    Also some extremely zealous attempts to prevent copying of their copies of someone else’s work. > Any unauthorised copying or reproduction will constitute an infringement of copyright. I have no idea if copyright in the UK protects slavish copying, but, in the US, I doubt their photos would have an enforceable copyright. (Ignoring any potential WIPO/TRIPS complexity here.)
    • cwillu 5y ago
      It's a bit rich to say “Any unauthorised copying or reproduction will constitute an infringement of copyright”, and literally the next paragraph: “No copyright infringement is intended”
• eatonphil 5y ago
  I tried to highlight text and Cmd-c (I'm on mac) or ctrl-c (still on the mac) and nothing happened. Chrome.
• userbinator 5y ago
  Every time I see others pointing out things like this, I'm reminded of why I keep JS off by default. Cookie/subscribe/"don't leave" popups, broken back buttons, messing with the scrolling, many ads, other shit that pops up when you try to select text, and of course, right-click alerts are among the things that I don't experience much if at all anymore since I started whitelisting JS. (The "escalation" of course involves the other side requiring JS to show the content, at which point I will usually use the back button instead.)