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Besides disabling copying, another annoying practice is when websites hijack the clipboard to add copyright info to copied text fragments.

I can barely understand showing a pop-up to request source attribution when copying content online.

However, actively interfering with things people copy is a big no-no to me. It creates a usability problem where there was none, and probably does little to discourage plagiarism.



I think iBook has that ”feature” and that made me, along the ever present store, abandon it as a reader. And it’s a nice reader.




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