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Just Let Me Select Text (aartaka.me)
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I found the https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ also good. Wondering what can auto-create the different formats for long form blog posts?

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[–] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Disable user-select: none; (and variants) on body to be able to select text again. I like the idea of a blog post that calls out something annoying and demonstrates the annoyance inline, though

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have a bookmarklet to enable text selection on any web page that tries to block it that way.

    Here it is for your convenience. Bookmark it and give a try on the linked blog post:

    javascript:document.styleSheets[0].insertRule("* { user-select:text !important }", 1);

    Can't remember where I swiped that from. Probably some ancient StackOverflow thread.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    WTF‽ I’m a web dev for 5 years, 8 if you count university, and I’ve never heard about bookmarklets. Why would that even begin to work?

    Man, this is so amazing!

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