You also have to copy through the browser's clipboard interface, not the X11 selection. Presumably Javascript is capable of hooking the former, but not the latter.
Ah, select/middle mouse button click is the one true copy/paste. I would never have occasion to see this happen.
I'm not even sure how to copy text to the clipboard (with conkeror).
Still doesn't work, even with using the Edit menu. I setup AdBlock to stop the NYT doing similar (as others have mentioned), and possibly it's blocking this one too.
I feel so isolated from the everyman. The web I see is not the web he sees.
I'm using Seamonkey on Linux, with javascript on, and the page fully loaded. I've tried ctrl-c, right click/copy, and edit/copy from the toolbar. In all cases it copies normally with no link inserted.
Worked for me using both Ctrl-C and right-click copy in Firefox in Linux.
Page seems to have to completely load before it works though.