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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 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.



I remember seeing at least one site where the result of copying is garbled text.


Music 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.


Oh 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.




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