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Places that prevent selection completely is not something I encounter that often. What I do experience regularly is places where selection is broken or unneces
by weinzierl 1y ago
Places that prevent selection completely is not something I encounter that often.
What I do experience regularly is places where selection is broken or unnecessarily fiddly. On iOS I find it often easier to screenshot and select in the image.
Screenshot, select, paste is a much smoother workflow than trying to select what I want three times, failing, selecting too much on one end, not enough on the other, copy, paste in Notes, fixing it up, select and finally copy what I wanted in the first place.
- jowea 1y agoI remember seeing at least one site where the result of copying is garbled text.
- mc3301 1y agoMusic lyrics sites used to all do this. You'd copy/paste the lyrics, and every other line was the website name or something. Maybe because it was easy to scrape the text and make your own lyrics website or something? I also think that google's song lyrics (on the search page itself) used to be non-selectable. But I jsut tried it, and they are selectable now.
- jowea 1y agoOh the copy paste manipulation is still not that rare. I'm speaking of sites where even if open the HTML source you only get a text garble that is magically converted into readable but uncopiable text.