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SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on their site. Try it
- kailoa 17y agoMac OS X, safari 4, Doesn't work. When I copy parts of a story, all I get are a couple of blank lines.
- spooneybarger 17y agoMac OS X, ff3.5, Doesn't work. I just get the text. No link.
- aichcon 17y agoSlightly off-topic, but I tend to highlight text as I read it, and I find it very annoying how they seem to automatically save the text snippet that you highlight whenever you highlight it. The progress bar constantly updates and it's quite distracting.
- msingleton 17y agoEvery time you select something they post back to their server with details about the selection (including the article, location of your selection, referrer, etc)
- bkudria 17y agoWould it be useful for browsers to allow AJAX requests that don't trigger "network use is happening" ? Is there a security concern?
- paulgb 17y agoThat's already the case for AJAX requests in most browsers. The problem is that Tynt doesn't use AJAX for the communication (they can't, because they communicate with a domain other than the one serving the content). I'm guessing they use a hidden iframe instead.
- CraigBuchek 17y agoGood to know that I'm not the only one. And not only do I highlight the text, but I just keep clicking, highlighting and un-highlighting. So I'm probably really overloading their servers with the AJAX callbacks.
- wheels 17y agoI do the same. The New York Times and similar sites that have actions on highlight drive me nuts.
- paulgb 17y agoOut of curiosity, do you (and this question is open to other compulsive selectors) tend to play with things physically when you read as well? Eg. subconsciously pick up a nearby object and start playing with it. (I do both, and I suspect they tend to go together)
- leviathant 17y agoI'm not getting an inserted link. I am, however, using NoScript, and this kind of nonsense is exactly why I love that add-on.
- bkudria 17y agoCongrats! You win! It is sort of a silly feature, but I figured the discussion here would be interesting. I was right :)
- CraigBuchek 17y agoNote that the front page (which HN links to) does NOT have this feature -- only the article pages.
- hyyypr 17y agoUnder Linux with Firefox and NoScript enabled. Right-click "Copy" does add the link. But just a "highlight" and "middle-button-paste" doesn't add the link. NoScript warns me of an XSS attempt when I highlight the text though.
- SwellJoe 17y agoFirefox on Linux. No link.
- whiskeyjack 17y agoWorked for me using both Ctrl-C and right-click copy in Firefox in Linux. Page seems to have to completely load before it works though.
- ajross 17y agoYou also have to copy through the browser's clipboard interface, not the X11 selection. Presumably Javascript is capable of hooking the former, but not the latter.
- SwellJoe 17y agoAh, select/middle mouse button click is the one true copy/paste. I would never have occasion to see this happen.
- jrockway 17y agoI'm not even sure how to copy text to the clipboard (with conkeror).
- 10ren 17y agoStill doesn't work, even with using the Edit menu. I setup AdBlock to stop the NYT doing similar (as others have mentioned), and possibly it's blocking this one too. I feel so isolated from the everyman. The web I see is not the web he sees.
- ranprieur 17y agoI'm using Seamonkey on Linux, with javascript on, and the page fully loaded. I've tried ctrl-c, right click/copy, and edit/copy from the toolbar. In all cases it copies normally with no link inserted.
- dfranke 17y agoHaven't bothered looking through the JS source, but it seems to be something bound to C-c. It only works for me on Linux when I use the main clipboard; highlight-and-middle-click doesn't do it.
- aidscholar 17y agoIt's Tynt Tracer: http://tracer.tynt.com/ http://tracer.tynt.com/
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- ivank 17y agoSubmitted a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491003 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491003
- keltecp11 17y agoThis is a great idea on their part.
- biohacker42 17y agoMuch, much, much better then the Don't you dare link to us! strategy.
- jsares 17y agoEsquire is doing the same http://www.esquire.com http://www.esquire.com : <!-- Tynt Tracer Beta --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js?user=aTIf7gthSr3P6Aacn9QLBk&s=70></script> http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js?user=aTIf7gthSr3P6...; <!-- //Tynt Tracer Beta --> </div>
- wwwhncom 17y agoText gets scrambled when you copy. First paragraph works ok, try others. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/11403547.asp?yazarid=69 http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/11403547.asp?yazarid=69
- endtime 17y agoDoesn't work in Opera 10 b2 on Windows Server 2008...still, neat feature.
- icco 17y agoI don't understand why this functionality angers people. It's like people don't want their information to have context...
- paulgb 17y agoLots of people compulsively select text when they read, and this feature makes that distracting.
- eli 17y agoThat's an argument against the "helpful" little box that pops up when you select on NYTimes ... but that's not what this is about. This is silent (until you copy/paste anyway).
- paulgb 17y agoI can't speak for other browsers, but in Firefox there are some brief but distracting UI changes when you select text. It is a side-effect of the click tracking code they use.
- rarestblog 17y agoDoesn't work with Chrome either. I copy the text, I get empty lines.
- joebasirico 17y agohmm just tried it with Chrome on my machine and it seemed to be working, perhaps they've already updated?