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Re: Javascript based "copy protection"

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Sep 17, 2014 9:48AM

This might be useful, if you use firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/righttoclick/

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:27 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi Everyone --
>
> My reader has been having trouble getting text from pages that employ
> javascript based "copy protection" i.e disabling selection events, right
> click menus and cut and paste key combos and the like. Does anyone know
> how to get around such things without disabing scripting entirely. If
> needed I can provide examples of the offending javascript.
>
> Thanks
> Matt
> --
> Matt Arnold
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
>
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