No longer able to highlight text in fics

[twitchy-bunnies.livejournal.com]

Not just me, right? If this is permanent, my best guess is that it was done to deter plagiarism by putting an end to people being able to just right-click copy whole stories.

10/11/2013 update: "Basic copy protection of story content within modern browsers. Currently it is enabled for all but authors will be able to disable/enable this feature in a coming update."

http://blog.fictionpress.com/2013/10/11/languages-for-navigation/#comments

No clue why they're just now telling us this, but hallelujah at it being optional \o/

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Extortion in the ffnet forums posted this fix for firefox users:
1) Download RightToClick add-on
2) Install, restart firefox as prompted
3) Click on add-on button on your browser: looks like a yellow thin mouse arrow.
Note: You only need the "Disable page cut/copy/paste/text-selection handlers" option checked. You can also specify to always use this on ffnet rather than having to click the button every time.

I don't know if there are similar add-ons for Chrome, IE, or Safari. Opera reportedly has no problems.

[jillyjames]

In which forum is this being discussed?

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.fanfiction.net/topic/20103/98104089/1

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently I can't post a link (spam), so:
Forums -> Search for "Fanfic Help Desk" -> Topic "impossible to highlight text"

[jillyjames]

Thank you! There's also a lot of traffic on this on the ff.net blog. I'm trying to keep on top of conversations on the subject to see if anyone from ff.net ever chimes in on the subject.

PS I'm apparently spam too!

[(Anonymous)]

This worked great for me!!! Thank you for posting these instructions!

[(Anonymous)]

You can bypass it easily using a built-in feature of Safari:
Click the "Reader" button in the address bar. That's it. You can highlight text as usual in this view.