Timeline for How do websites block selecting text and how do I unblock that?

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Dec 17, 2022 at 4:02	comment	added	DannyBoi		This site brought me here hildastouchofspice.com/2011/12/marzipan.html#prettyPhoto . The above answer plus superuser.com/a/964711/617826 does the trick.
Jan 27, 2022 at 4:35	comment	added	Keyslinger		In my case, the css rule that worked was `body * :not(input):not(textarea) { user-select: auto !important; -webkit-user-select: auto !important; }`
Jan 9, 2018 at 3:55	comment	added	Herohtar		@Hashim That isn't necessary; you can specify which pages it applies to with one or more `@match` statements, but that would require modifying the script when you wanted it to apply to a specific page, unless you only visit a specific site or set of sites that you always want to modify. For the example script I made it generic by using `:///*` as the URL to match, so it will apply everywhere. It can be toggled on and off from the menu of the user script manager.
Jan 9, 2018 at 3:33	comment	added	Hashim Aziz		`This will apply to every page if left enabled, which might not be desirable in all situations.` Could you not just nest the function in an if statement that executes the script only if the URL matches a particular site or array of sites?
Jan 8, 2018 at 15:16	history	edited	Herohtar	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 234 characters in body
Jan 5, 2018 at 16:32	history	answered	Herohtar	CC BY-SA 3.0