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Re:Pastejacking by leephillips on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:34PM (#11758619)
Many pages in the New York Times are impossible to select text in. But I just select the text from the page source. After reading this article, I'm thinking that might be a good idea in general.
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Re:Pastejacking by mirimir on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:09AM (#11759725)
I do too. But sometimes there's no text in source, just scripts :(
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Re:Pastejacking by arviewer on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @04:17AM (#11759754)
In Firefox use CTRL-SHIFT-I or use Firebug to inspect the code on the page after it's generated. I guess many times it's a transparent div covering the text, not javascript tricks like this, but I might be wrong. You can remove the div using Firebug. Selecting the text in Firebug will work, but may be a lot more work. How about printing to PDF, then selecting the text there?
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Re:Pastejacking by majewsky on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:17AM (#11760551)
remembers the times when computers were supposed to make things easier for us
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Re:Pastejacking by beachstartup on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @11:45AM (#11762483)
"supposed" to, but never really did.
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Re:Pastejacking by paulryanrogers on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:44PM (#11763072)
Easier to take (possibly steal) on your terms?
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