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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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[–] 4 points 5 days ago

You can do this kind of JS fuckery and overwrite the default copy behaviour.

document.addEventListener("copy", (event) => {
  event.clipboardData.setData(
    "text/plain",
    "This is the text that will actually be pasted!"
  );

  event.preventDefault();
});

Though I would always consider this super hostile design. The only sane place where something like this should be is a copy button you can click to automatically copy something into the clipboard.

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