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by madeofpalk 598 days ago
Unselectable text:

> Currently, our app is available on Desktop Chrome only. Please switch to Chrome for the best experience.

The best experience? I guess seeing this message technically is an experience.

Shame they didn't make a website for people to use though. Oh well, next tab!

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Funny, I just used it on Firefox for Android and it worked.

Impressive, but practically unplayable because, for example, the moment grass comes near to the camera it will likely halluci-spawn a wall or something right before the camera (behind the grass). Every time I saw a place to walk to, I was never able to reach it because of similar effects. But: nice idea.

In this case, the reason might be that it needs WebGPU, which is only available in chromium based browsers. Changing my user agent doesn't let me in either. Text selection being disabled might be a "lazy" fix for text being selected while in game.
This time it's sadly just another case of a web developer who thinks he knows better than you what browser you should use, it works fine with

  // ==UserScript==
  // @name     oasis.decart.ai Firefox fix
  // @version  1
  // @run-at   document-start
  // @match    https://oasis.decart.ai/*
  // ==/UserScript==
  
  unsafeWindow.chrome = 1;
For what it's worth, if you're on macOS the StopTheMadness extension will allow you to ... well, stop (some of) the madness and select the text.
Worked for me on Edge if that helps :)