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[–] 35 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

I was going to copy content from the page using Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy in Firefox, but then I realized the content isn't worth copying.

So yes, there are add-ons to easily extract text and bypass this. The text is sent to your computer. It's your computer. You can copy the content.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It's done by overriding the document.onrightclick and the selection start something function in the browser. Reset it and you're done.

    I know this because of a manufacturers website that does this. So incredibly annoying when the only reason anybody would want to copy from their webbo is for reference of their own products. In my case the product numbers to search for where to buy it.

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