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"We copied a summary of the article instead of the full text" - hostile UI design blocking quoting of an article I am trying to share with others (www.airdatanews.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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On mobile if I try to copy a paragraph or two to my web browser clipboard it literally won't on this website.

I assume this is because of AI scraping or whatever but this has got to be the most insulting, condescending UI design I have encountered in a long time.

I distinctly remember people laughing at me about saying this would happen....

Ughhh.

Also yes I know there are probably a million ways to get around this but the point is this is just so fucking pointlessly stupid.

This is what it looks like on android.

I wanted to share your article with an interesting quote I picked to add a personal touch and thus encourage people to read the full article you assholes, but ok fine I will never go to this website again.....

Oh wait but I can feed ALL of the text into Google's AI slop machine just by swiping down because of course I can still do that, that makes sense.

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[–] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Select all -> Copy is working fine for me using firefox on android mobile, at least.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 days ago* (3 children)

    I specifically DO NOT want to copy the whole article though! I just wanted to quote a small section as a teaser and window into the full article.

    This kind of tit-for-tat mindless evolution of UI design just slaps me in the face because the website has defended itself against AI slopscrawlers by.... locking out a human trying to share two paragraphs they picked from their article and still letting the slopcrawlers take it all anyways....

    What does a publication have if they do not have word of mouth advertising? Why has AI so thoroughly broken peoples' ability to critically think?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    The weirder part is that AI scrapers don't give a damn about selecting paragraphs out - so this feature is either incredibly poorly thought through, or was outright intended to prevent exactly what you're trying to do.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    Dragging and copying is also working for me on Firefox for Android. E.g.:

    Three Boeing employees familiar with the situation told Reuters that 777F production had not resumed by October 23 despite Boeing and Florida-based supplier Vaero reaching a settlement in late September.

    [...]

    Some additional 777Fs could still be handed over before the end of 2026 because their wings were assembled before the supplier dispute, according to employees cited by Reuters.

    Edit: And a courtesy link to the original Reuters article.

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