[_asummers]

Am I the only person absolutely hates this feature on websites? I highlight where I'm at on the page in the event I get pulled away for whatever reason so I know where I was at in the page. Any JS interaction there drives me insane and I wish no sites did this. If you're going to ask me to share the text, at least make that show up _outside_ the text I'm reading, please.

[jszymborski]

I really hate this anti-pattern. I can't be the only person who highlights text as he reads to follow along...

[brynjolf]

I actually sometimes just copy the text from medium into a text editor so I can continue doing this. I'm addicted to highlighting.

[keehun]

I hate this, too, and have used uBlock to completely banish the responsible DOM elements.

[runesoerensen]

Reminded me of this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627009

I too am a highlighter :)

[oliv__]

Me too. One thing that drives me nuts is for some reason on the nytimes website when you double tap (I don't like to click) on text to highlight it will change the size of the text... I always forget about this and it takes active thought not to try highlighting things!

[Kpourdeilami]

I usually read by highlighting the paragraph that I'm reading and I find it frustrating when websites break my workflow. Microsoft Azure's docs website does this as well.

[batrat]

Not alone. When I read text on my PC I tend to select text with my mouse a lot. This drive mu nuts when i select something then click accidentally on share button.

[stingraycharles]

Not surprisingly, the selecting text is broken on my device and instantly makes me scroll to the bottom of the page (iPad / Safari). Horrible user experience.

[MaxArt2501]

I agree, that's somewhat annoying, but that's also something developers and commissioners want.

But the good news is that the DOM skeleton is so minimal that you can create a stylesheet that does exactly what you said. Given the reference to the selection, positioning the popover is up to the developer.