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This drives me up the wall on Android, don't use Windows. I like to feel that I actually own and control my powerful general purpose computer. Instead I've got

This drives me up the wall on Android, don't use Windows. I like to feel that I actually own and control my powerful general purpose computer. Instead I've got a phone that's good for reading HN and not much else. There shouldn't have to be a discussion on HN on how to select arbitrary text. /Rant

iforgotpassword 3y ago
Oh god, and it's everywhere. Literally would use the YouTube app every now and then with ads to support creators, but being unable to copy video titles, descriptions and comments drive me nuts! Just add "long-press is copy" ffs. So I guess they want me to keep using the browser version in Firefox with blocked ads.
Schiendelman 3y ago
This is a lot better on Apple products, since the default browser and default screen capture tools offer OCR.
- hu3 3y ago
  Windows default screen capture offer OCR too.
- benj111 3y ago
  That shouldn't be needed though. "We are displaying you text that was served to/stored by our program as text, but we won't let you use it as text, unless you jump through the hoop of ocring it"