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Comment by zamber | Hacker News Reader

Clipboard and selection handling is a massive PITA in webdev. On the flipside it "enables" such creative solutions like that pesky text selection bubble on medium.

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Oh man, I hate that thing on Medium so much. I'm slightly fidgety so sometimes I double click the text I'm reading. I didn't even realize how much I did it until I visited Medium and almost tweeted some random paragraph I was reading. I would love to turn that crap off.

Could you block javascript on that page?

Yes, but you probably couldn't read the post then :)

Medium works nicely without JS. (Granted there are a few sites that rely on JS to display text, but in my experience there are a lot more that do something stupid, like breaking copying or breaking search than those.)

Also NoScript reliably breaks autoplay videos, as I found out when the webextension version needed a few days until the release.

I found custom-blocking with *block extensions more productive on JS heavy sites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15770228

I like the light on dark better so i double click all the text i'm reading. Also helps keep your line. Might not be a fidget thing.

Yea you're probably right, reading that way is also easier to focus in on the text

Its also just kinda fun

If you like light on dark, why not turn on reader mode? It has a light on dark scheme.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150528-00/?p=...

Incredible, I learned something about myself today.

You can always block it with *block extensions:

    ##.highlightMenu

For Stylish and other CSS injectors:

    .highlightMenu {
      display:none;
    }

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