They also somehow broke scrolling via the scroll bar, swipe to go back, and jumping to text search results on iOS! This is the first site that I’ve seen break so many browser features.

oncontextmenu and ondragstart are preventDefault'ed _unless_ you are in a input/textarea e.g. leaving a reply. Truly bizarre and pointless. I've done something similar in a nonsense corporate context to stop people copying certain sensitive date, but at least I knew it was pointless.

In Firefox you can shift+rightclick to bypass that (disables the event), or completely disable the event by changing "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled" in about:config.

Very perplexed about this too. The only reason I can come up with is to prevent people from copying the content?

But that doesn't make much sense either TBH. The page's content is not obfuscated, so this does nothing to stop a content scraper script. Plus, even a not particularly technical user can just turn on reading mode and get at the text anyways...

Disabling highlighting and right clicking is common in some places in East Asia such as Korea.

As to why this is done I have no idea. Especially since you can circumvent the disabling of these abilities. Although you have to resort to OCR when a site decides to render the text as an image.

I also had the page load very slowly, and it actually reloaded 3x while I was trying to read it. Something is off about that website :(

I can’t even open the website on iOS safari with AdGuard enabled.