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by taye 4567 days ago
I've never actually noticed any site doing that to me as I usually browse with NoScript.

I wrote that post with the intention of using the solution in apps to copy/paste app data in plain text - eg. selecting multiple objects in a drawing app and copying them as a JSON string.

I guess NoScript/Ghostery/AdBlock Plus could be considered solutions to your problem.

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> I've never actually noticed any site doing that to me as I usually browse with NoScript.

Not necessarily a solution, as you can do it with css only. For example, people can put a 0-sized snippet at the end of the text, and then pad with some non-copyable text, so you select ABC, end up copying AB<something else>.

IIRC twitter does this for urls (think "http://oo.com…").

Your use sounds quite nice. Sadly, it seems that the abuse is much more common. Thanks for the suggestions.