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It's there any good reason to prevent highlighting the text of the page? Being able to highlight and search text from the post is an integral part of the web experience. I shouldn't have to use reader mode. If the author reads this - knock it off. It's user hostile, and doesn't prevent harvesting of your content by bots or people. Make the experience of your content pleasant and don't get in the way of basic browser functionality.

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Works for me on Firefox, in all permutations of permitting and disabling first and third party javascript. Although it's in red, which is unusual.

Author read this and has no idea what you're talking about. I'm not doing anything to disable highlighting or searching and it works on every browser I've tested it on across multiple OSes and mobile. Give me some repro steps and I'll take a look.

Interesting. I'm using brave on mobile, looks like android dark theme + some browser settings made the highlighting invisible. I shouldn't post when hangry - thank you for reviewing, and sorry for the hassle.

I need to give my browser setup more tlc.

to be fair, the wordpress theme I'm using does a red highlight, which I was not aware of until I tested it. May have contributed.

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