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twitchy_bunnies in ffdotnetrants

No longer able to highlight text in fics

Oct 08, 2013 09:34

Not just me, right? If this is permanent, my best guess is that it was done to deter plagiarism by putting an end to people being able to just right-click copy whole stories.

10/11/2013 update: "Basic copy protection of story content within modern browsers. Currently it is enabled for all but authors will be able to disable/enable this feature in ( Read more... )

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lordhellebore October 8 2013, 14:58:30 UTC

It's the same for me, too. And preventing plagiarism sounds like the only reasonable explanation. Though it makes reccing/discussion way more annoying, having to type out excerpts etc.

dannylionthe1st October 8 2013, 15:16:38 UTC

I'm not sure about the other browsers, but in Chrome you can click "View Page Source" scroll down and it's there. Granted, it's one giant paragraph, but you can always control F to find what you were looking for. It's a little harder, but that's a work around if you don't want to type. :)

roeskva October 8 2013, 17:09:54 UTC

It's same here too. Which is actually pretty annoying, as I post on ffnet first, and then copy-paste my fic on another archive - this is the only way I have found to make that archive not screw up my formatting. Nothing else seems to work.

Fortunately, the block on ffnet can easily be circumvented. The easiest thing in firefox (probably work other places as well), is to click "View" -> "Page style" -> "No style".

Yes, the top of the page and such looks ugly, but the fic itself is fine :) Works for me, at least.

twitchy_bunnies October 8 2013, 17:44:56 UTC

Just tried this out and it worked for me as well; thank you ;DD

magicamethyst80 October 8 2013, 20:57:40 UTC

I know I sound silly for asking, but where is "view."

roeskva October 8 2013, 21:29:38 UTC

The menu bar at the top of the browser window.

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montara81 October 8 2013, 18:10:34 UTC

I've installed the Add-on: Greasemonkey and then the userscript: Fanfiction net, make text selectable again. Now I can copy-paste like before :)

roseriotgrrrl October 9 2013, 03:47:20 UTC

Thanks that worked perfectly!

montara81 October 11 2013, 21:45:15 UTC

You're welcome!:)

montara81 October 9 2013, 16:41:00 UTC

Where do i put 'make text selectable'?

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redswordheart October 8 2013, 21:42:58 UTC

Same for me. I thought my mouse was acting up. I tried disabling JavaScript and am still unable to select and copy text.

anonymous October 8 2013, 22:08:53 UTC

Seems to be an issue in most browsers. Someone posted on the blog that copy/paste is still working in IE8, so I went and checked on my old laptop, and it is.

Weird that they'd disable it in everything else but not in IE8

roeskva October 8 2013, 22:27:11 UTC

As far as I understand, it is a CSS thing they have done. That is why it works to use "No style" for page style. That turns off any CSS on a page.

IE8 doesn't interpret CSS correctly (different, at any rate) - that was one of the problems with it, but now it seems to have become a feature :)