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

[jillyjames]

I just tried Ctrl+A, then Ctrl+C, then went into notepad and did Ctrl+V, and everything pasted just fine. I have to deal with the headers and footers, but it's not that big a deal.

I'll miss the highlighting though... helps me keep track of where I am on the screen. Sigh. What a pain!

[twitchy-bunnies.livejournal.com]

It only seems to work for me in chrome (Firefox and IE both just copied the top bits).

I miss it, too. I'm still holding on to hope that this thing gets scrapped.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly... It's so easy to bypass than it's not worth it but it's annoying for normal reading. I probably going to read the stories at "without style" settings :(

Really bad "update"