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Given that this page has the following styles which aren't applied anywhere else on the blog: body { -webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-
by NoraCodes 1y ago
Given that this page has the following styles which aren't applied anywhere else on the blog:
body {
-webkit-user-select: none;
-webkit-touch-callout: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
I think it's safe to assume that being unable to select text on this page is not unintentional, as several comments here assume, nor "ironic", but an intentional effort to demonstrate how annoying this behavior is.
- encom 1y agoIn uBlock: *##html, body, body *:style(user-select: auto !important)
- Koffiepoeder 1y agoWouldn't recommend applying this _everywhere_; the `body *` selector may have a significant performance impact on some pages.
- d1sxeyes 1y agoNot any more. All modern browser engines read right to left.
- nananana9 1y agoI don't know why so many comments are discussing "if it's intentional troll or hypocrisy", when it takes 10 seconds to check one of the other blog posts and see if the text there is selectable :(
- miltonlost 1y agoBecause people don't understand what a joke is sometimes, even on that's obvious like this.
- aartaka 1y agoThat’s a lot of work, and I don’t expect all readers to open more than one page on my blog. But yeah, great that it sparked some debate.
- johanyc 1y agoI have a bookmarklet just to deal with this kind of websites lol
- Dilettante_ 1y agoWould you share perhaps?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- aartaka 1y agoYeah, do share it!
- johanyc 1y ago``` javascript:(function()%7B%0A%20%20function%20R(a)%7B%0A%20%20%20%20var%20ona=%22on%22+a;%0A%20%20%20%20if(window.addEventListener)%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20window.addEventListener(a,function(e)%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20for(var%20n=e.originalTarget%7C%7Ce.target;n;n=n.parentNode)%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20n%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D,true);%0A%20%20%20%20window%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%20%20document%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%20%20if(document.body)document.body%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20R(%22contextmenu%22);%0A%20%20R(%22click%22);%0A%20%20R(%22mousedown%22);%0A%20%20R(%22mouseup%22);%0A%20%20R(%22selectstart%22);%0A%20%20//%20Remove%20CSS%20user-select%20restrictions%0A%20%20var%20style=document.createElement('style');%0A%20%20style.innerHTML='*%7Buser-select:auto%20!important;-webkit-user-select:auto%20!important;-moz-user-select:auto%20!important;-ms-user-select:auto%20!important;%7D';%0A%20%20document.head.appendChild(style);%0A%7D)(); ``` This enables text selection and right clicking.
- moralestapia 1y agoAre people these days so dense (i.e. stupid) they couldn't figure out it was a joke by the author?
- jasonlotito 1y ago[flagged]
- kulahan 1y agoI recently read something that stated we've never really had more than 30% of students in the US at a level of mathematical understanding where they can tell that 3/4ths and 0.75 are the same thing, conceptually. I cannot stop thinking about this; it honestly explains so much.
- MPSimmons 1y agoI would hope fervently that HackerNews would be subject to selection bias and would be an exception, but who knows.
- latexr 1y agoThe third-pound burger flopped because consumers failed to understand that one third is bigger than one fourth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger#Marketing_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger#Marketing_f...
- moralestapia 1y agoThanks for this, wow.
- lupire 1y agoShould have promoted a quarter-plus-twelfth burger! That's about 37%!
- prmph 1y agoWhy complicate it: just advertise a fifth
- pmontra 1y agoNice catch. Luckily I can use uMatrix to disable css and select and copy the post. Oddly the selection is transparent. Firefox Android. > I’m lonely. Like everyone-ish else. Naturally, I’m on Bumble
- kokanee 1y agoNo browser extensions necessary, just right click > inspect element > select <body>, then turn off the CSS rules you don't want.
- pmontra 1y agoThat's not an option on mobile.
- aartaka 1y agoThere are many ways to bypass that. User scripts and user styles too. But the point is delivered: one can disable selection, with just a couple of lines of CSS/JS, and cause a lot of pain for the reader.
- bambax 1y agoYes but the joke is moot, because on the web, you can't really make text non-selectable (you can try, but it can be defeated extremely easily). In an app, undoing that is pretty much impossible (or at least, above my pay grade). This is one of a million reasons why apps are so bad.
- zahlman 1y ago"Apps" of this sort are absolutely "on the web", and generally use browser engines to display the content. The real distinction IMO is between using a locked-down mobile interface vs. a full browser on a computer with an OS and UI intended to let you have that control.
- IshKebab 1y agoI can pretty much guarantee that an app like Bumble is not a webview wrapper.
- blacksmith_tb 1y agoBut unlike Hinge, Bumble is usable on desktop (where getting the text would be a lot easier).
- aartaka 1y agoYou can never know nowadays. But yeah, it must be a native app, at least on iOS with its PWA-hostile policies.
- IshKebab 1y agoYou can know. There is always telltale jank in web apps. And there are things that are basically impossible to do in web apps, like reliable camera integration.
- spullara 1y agoon Mac/iOS you can just take a screenshot and then select out of the image.
- zahlman 1y ago> nor "ironic", but an intentional effort to demonstrate how annoying That would in fact be a deliberate use of irony.
- Martin_Silenus 1y agoPeople's stupidity will always surprise me. I mean... it's such a basic irony trick given the subject matter that it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned, let alone questioned.
- ncallaway 1y agoYep, it's clearly deliberate. It's also annoying enough that I'm not reading the text of the blog. I hope the author doesn't have any point beyond: "it's annoying to disable text selection"
- aartaka 1y agoLol, that’s a good proof for my point. And a fun one at that! Thanks.
- jader201 1y agoWithin seconds of opening the article, I tried selecting text, and upon realizing that I couldn't, I chuckled, knowing that it had to be intentional.
- aartaka 1y agoIt was.
- aartaka 1y agoYou’re right with your analysis, but I still find this device ironic in addition to what you said.