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Why'd you disable right clicking and highlighting? Edit: If you're not the author of the post, feel free to ignore :)
by diabeetusman 2y ago
Why'd you disable right clicking and highlighting?
Edit: If you're not the author of the post, feel free to ignore :)
- jonathanyc 2y agoThey also somehow broke scrolling via the scroll bar, swipe to go back, and jumping to text search results on iOS! This is the first site that I’ve seen break so many browser features.
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- mbb70 2y agooncontextmenu and ondragstart are preventDefault'ed _unless_ you are in a input/textarea e.g. leaving a reply. Truly bizarre and pointless. I've done something similar in a nonsense corporate context to stop people copying certain sensitive date, but at least I knew it was pointless.
- jabbany 2y agoVery perplexed about this too. The only reason I can come up with is to prevent people from copying the content? But that doesn't make much sense either TBH. The page's content is not obfuscated, so this does nothing to stop a content scraper script. Plus, even a not particularly technical user can just turn on reading mode and get at the text anyways...
- Panzer04 2y agoI also had the page load very slowly, and it actually reloaded 3x while I was trying to read it. Something is off about that website :(
- chmod775 2y agoIn Firefox you can shift+rightclick to bypass that (disables the event), or completely disable the event by changing "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled" in about:config.
- quickthrowman 2y agoI can’t even open the website on iOS safari with AdGuard enabled.
- BlockerBrews 2y agoDisabling highlighting and right clicking is common in some places in East Asia such as Korea. As to why this is done I have no idea. Especially since you can circumvent the disabling of these abilities. Although you have to resort to OCR when a site decides to render the text as an image.