[Killah911]

Amen, I've been suffering from l HN withdrawal symptoms due to this. I have only been able to read comments and submission headlines on the iPhone.

Updtae: this is likely due to third party apps (in my case Booking.com). But uninstalling doesn't seem to help. Also I couldn't read the article since safari can only visit URLs that I explicitly type in

[puddintane]

Does copy and paste not work?

[disposeofnick9]

There's also another annoying, existing bug in iOS at least back to 9.2 where if memory is low, copy stops working... the clipboard retains the old value until you kill basically every other app.

[leetrout]

Not for me. Long pressing causes safari to lock up and crash.

[Nazzareno]

Long pressing works with Chrome

[umanwizard]

Workaround mentioned in the article: disable JavaScript. Hope this helps you.

[UVB-76]

Far too many websites rely on JavaScript now for this to be a real workaround.