Post #1088966
2025-09-15 11:07 UTC
Replies (21)
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@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca 2025-09-15 12:14
@ada@beige.party @cainmark@mstdn.social It also stops people from selecting words to look up definitions, or copy-and-pasting quotes, or selecting text to be translated into a user’s native language. It’s actively hostile, and I’ll remember to blacklist that site.
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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2025-09-15 12:19
@ada@beige.party Also JFC with the grey or translucent fonts. Half the population struggle to read light fonts.
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@notthatdelta@furry.engineer 2025-09-15 12:57
@ada@beige.party very much agree. Even worse is when you go to highlight some text (eg, a part number or specification), and you get hit with a popup going on about "we have the lowest prices, guaranteed". First, I don't trust that you do. Second, I need to research part compatibility independently, because your company has prioritized shitty UX over providing accurate information.
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@freya@chaosfem.tw 2025-09-15 13:17
@ada@beige.party it also doesn't stop thjose of us using screenreaders for even a femtosecond, since our highlight is in a virtual buffer
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@h5e@tech.lgbt 2025-09-15 13:42
@ada@beige.party addendum: also don't add "functionality" when people select text, such as share buttons and the like, for the exact same reason 😒
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@kett@app.wafrn.net 2025-09-15 13:57
Sites that block the right click action when I shift-right click
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@Reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info 2025-09-15 14:05
@ada@beige.party why do they even do it, tho? like, what benefit could there be to doing that?
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@tessarakt@mastodon.social 2025-09-15 14:26
@ada@beige.party I often see this with expandable headings. I think it's because those are implemented as buttons?
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@mstar@mk.absturztau.be 2025-09-15 14:50
@ada@beige.party I will disable it for a very select few elements, with the only example where I have done so being some buttons (before I changed them from div to button). However, messing with any sort of "important" content (like the content of a post, or description, etc) must not ever be tagged that way
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@MiaWinter@tech.lgbt 2025-09-15 14:57
@ada@beige.party also, if you disable paste on a password or otp code field I will come to your home and unscrew every single bottle cap I can find just enough for you to not notice until you spilled the contents of the container a little
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@FishNamedDog@mastodon.social 2025-09-15 14:59
@ada@beige.party never realized how much I do this until it gets annoying (do you want to share this on twitter? no, no I do not I just want to be able to highlight peacefully please)
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@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl 2025-09-15 15:29
@ada@beige.party This anti-feature should really just not exist in web browsers. What legitimate use is there for disabling text selection?
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@philsherry@mstdn.social 2025-09-15 15:42
@ada@beige.party When is this happening? Is it when they’re trying to make an entire Thing clickable, so they overlay a pseudo-element as the hit area? That’s far too common, unfortunately, but people do that to spare screen reader users from having link text that takes half an hour to read and doesn’t quite make sense. It all comes down to lack of testing with actual humans with real needs.
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@blindfrog@app.wafrn.net 2025-09-15 15:53
My online textbooks are like this :neofox_cry:
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@mike805@noc.social 2025-09-15 16:06
@ada@beige.party And have you noticed the sites that do this have horrible color schemes that are hard to read? Very often I do this to get text into a more readable form in an editor. I also often slam CTRL-A CTRL-C to grab all the text before a login/paywall comes up. If the site is stupid enough to send the whole article I'm going to read it.
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@paul@notnull.space 2025-09-15 16:40
@ada@beige.party totally agree! Also... Reader mode is your friend 😉
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@RedtailWorks@woof.tech 2025-09-15 16:47
@ada@beige.party What if I add line-by-line highlighting when hovering over text?
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@iwein@mas.to 2025-09-15 16:58
@ada@beige.party thank you!
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@LordCaramac@discordian.social 2025-09-15 20:44
@ada@beige.party Also, could people please stop disabling right-click? It's quite trivial to re-enable, but it's also quite annoying.
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@juliewebgirl@mstdn.social 2025-09-15 20:52
@ada@beige.party #UX Or making the paragraph an image! Or blocking an image from right click 🤦♀️ my screensaver gives better resolution than downloading anyway, thx.
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@ebauche@mastodon.social 2025-09-15 21:24
@ada@beige.party amen to that. I remember clients asking me to disable right click functionality so people "can't steal our content". I would patiently explain all the reasons that was a terrible idea. I'm quite happy to not be web developing any more though.