TS: text you can copy and paste from websites vs. text you can't

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Certain sites have always made their reviews/interviews/whatever unliftable, but lately this practice has become more widespread (also: setting things up so that one must highlight two seconds of the same story on the same page to copy, or breaking up text with ads). Which sucks. I mean, I imagine the idea is to prevent people from stealing/or re-publishing your work or to keep them focussed on the page on which the work appears/susceptible to ad content. But it sucks when, like, I wanna copy something from the A.V. Club to an email file so I can read it during work hours without having my browser up and incurring the wrath of superiors.

Anyway. Just wanted to complain, I'm sure nobody cares.

― R. Cummings (skateboardr), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

sections, not "seconds."

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

View Source.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

que?

It's like "dudes I wanna read what you have to say abt arts and culture and you got a page hit outta this so can i at least copy/paste yr stuff for my personal enjoyment?"

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

If you view source, sometimes you can cut/paste from there.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

ctrl+U

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.workfriendly.net/

― TOMB07 (trm), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm

i'm gonna have to try that, thanks!

also, lol at never-ending comment warz on a.v. club music reviews

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

TOMBOT, my work server just blocked me from seeing that site

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

They're on to you!

Pretty funny

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

ctrl+U

did not know!

http://www.workfriendly.net/

better than c/p to notepad. high 5

― false cat (sleep), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

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