Timeline for How do websites block selecting text and how do I unblock that?
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| Jun 12 at 17:03 | answer | added | Enrique García Cota | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 23 at 23:22 | answer | added | HoldOffHunger | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 25, 2022 at 22:35 | answer | added | Eric | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 3, 2022 at 15:43 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 2, 2021 at 23:38 | answer | added | and his dog | timeline score: 18 | |
| Apr 20, 2021 at 6:17 | comment | added | Jeffrey C | Seems that the example site doesn't block text selecting more. Nice. | |
| Jan 24, 2020 at 13:24 | answer | added | Sandra Rossi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 5, 2019 at 9:20 | answer | added | agcala | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 11:21 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 14:57 | answer | added | derei | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 23:44 | answer | added | user1404316 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 19:17 | answer | added | Oliver Salzburg | timeline score: 17 | |
| S Jan 8, 2018 at 21:45 | history | suggested | Kodiologist | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
"mark" → "select"
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 13:31 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @MCMastery That's an awfully insular viewpoint. The correct assumption would be "Can we just take a moment and sympathize for all the delusional website owners out there who think their precious website content can be protected in any capacity whatsoever? And a moment of silence for the developer which was tasked in programming enough security to fool the owner." | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 11:33 | comment | added | SantiBailors | @DVK +1000 for the much needed focus on real life. However part of the problem is that wishful thinkers often adopt this kind of measures and then expect these measures to "solve the problem", and if a developer humbly points out that they only make the content stealing require a bit more work, he/she is frowned upon as non-positive, not a doer etc. So it's still good that people point out that this approach is not a good security measure, they should just add something like "although it does mitigate the problem a lot". Then it depends on what level of protection the specific business needs. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 9:56 | answer | added | Obsidian Phoenix | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 9:04 | answer | added | Eric Duminil | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 21:14 | history | edited | Jan Doggen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | DVK | @MCMastery - the goal, as usual, is not to be faster than the dinosaur. The goal is to be faster than the dude next to you. Just as a goal of a lock isn't to defeat a burglar, it's to introduce more friction for them to go burgle someone else. Or in other words, the goal of the measure is not to introduce bulletproof security; it's to introduce enough friction to (a) deter casual copier and (b) make a less casual copier more interested in less-work-required-to-copy alternative sites. | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 16:05 | comment | added | Ellie Kesselman | @mvw I think New York Times nytimes.com and Institutional Investor institutionalinvestor.com are additional example sites. | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 7:40 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2018 at 13:19 | answer | added | mvark | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 23:35 | comment | added | Kevin | There's a chrome addon that unblocks pasting, I'm sure there's one for unblocking selection and copying too. | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 20:47 | comment | added | anna328p | Install RightToCopy | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 20:39 | comment | added | corsiKa | @MCMastery Or worse, the developers who know it's terrible but are told they have to do it anyway. Most of the time they are worried about people stealing content. Then you've got sites like SO who are getting scraped/stolen from all the time... but commercially viable. Turns out alienating your userbase is bad for business. Who would have thought?! | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 17:50 | comment | added | mirabilos | With JavaScript. Use Lynx as browser. | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 16:44 | answer | added | JMK | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 16:32 | answer | added | Herohtar | timeline score: 40 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 16:18 | comment | added | RIanGillis | I don't know how prevalent the practice is anymore, but I remember running across a few instances of a single-pixel image being stretched to cover the whole page to prevent copying of text etc. That and changing my mouse pointer to glittery rainbow-unicorn-stars along with flashing text everywhere... | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 15:17 | comment | added | MCMastery | Can we just take a moment and sympathize for all the delusional web developers out there who think this is a good security measure? | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 14:48 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/949291474004402177 | ||
| Jan 5, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | user6329530 | @Xen2050 Mostly I don't care about copying text. I just love the ability to mark phrases and terms and search for it on Google with just a click of the mouse (doubleclick word, rightclick "Search Google..."). I could go into the source (if it's clean source at all) and scan for the word, copy it, paste in Google but well... as said this is just an annoyance. Some1 who wants to copy your website text can do it anyhow but someone who just wants a comfortable workflow gets hindered. | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 13:09 | vote | accept | user6329530 | ||
| Jan 5, 2018 at 10:00 | answer | added | TOOGAM | timeline score: 104 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:57 | comment | added | Xen2050 | Do you want to duplicate the blocking on your own site? Or just copy this text? Look at the source & copy it from there yet? | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:52 | comment | added | user766703 |
"How do websites block marking of text" - They set style.userSelect to none.
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:35 | history | edited | user6329530 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:34 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 9:30 | history | asked | user6329530 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |