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by riffraff 4569 days ago
> 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…").