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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by ajross on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:23PM (#728873)
You 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.
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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by SwellJoe on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @05:45PM (#728916)
Ah, select/middle mouse button click is the one true copy/paste. I would never have occasion to see this happen.
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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by 10ren on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @12:04AM (#729422)
Still 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.

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Re:SFGate inserts a link to the story when you copy text on ... by jrockway on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @08:42PM (#729201)
I'm not even sure how to copy text to the clipboard (with conkeror).
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