Copy and paste

[still kicking]

For years, one could just copy and paste anything from the news not anymore. What I do wrong, and many other posters?

[gamb00ler]

Web sites can restrict the ability of the user to use the right click on your mouse.  When the publisher does that the copy/paste function cannot be used.

 

What is the specific web site that is not allowing you to copy?

[Mutt Daeng]

Keyboard shortcuts will still often work when mouse right-click is disabled.

 

Press Ctrl + C (or Ctrl + Insert) to copy highlighted text to the clipboard

Press Ctrl + X to cut highlighted text, placing it in the clipboard

Press Ctrl + V (or Shift + Insert) to paste text from the clipboard

 

For anything else, you would need to provide examples of what you are trying to do, as suggested by @gamb00ler above.

[treetops]

Here's one that I was just made aware of a few days ago.  Can't select text or open a context menu.  Ctrl-A for select all doesn't work.

 

Any workarounds?

 

 

Web page:

 

https://davetheravebangkok.com/rum-runner-soi-buakhao-review/

 

[Mutt Daeng]

39 minutes ago, treetops said:

Here's one that I was just made aware of a few days ago.  Can't select text or open a context menu.  Ctrl-A for select all doesn't work.

 

Any workarounds?

 

 

Web page:

 

https://davetheravebangkok.com/rum-runner-soi-buakhao-review/

 

What specifically are you trying to accomplish?

[treetops]

1 minute ago, Mutt Daeng said:

What specifically are you trying to accomplish?

 

Find a solution for the OP who apparently wants to copy/paste from sites that have set these type of restrictions.

 

He/she could take screen shots but that's not as convenient.

[Mutt Daeng]

4 minutes ago, treetops said:

 

Find a solution for the OP who apparently wants to copy/paste from sites that have set these type of restrictions.

 

He/she could take screen shots but that's not as convenient.

Editing screenshots was the only suggestion that I thought of. Depends how badly he wants to do it I guess.

[topt]

I think this is his second or third thread on the same subject..........

 

[novanova]

Yes, it is true that some websites turn off copying their text.

 

In Firefox, there is a fix: install this add-on: "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy"

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click

[JaxxBKK]

The internet will have a bunch of workarounds.

 

At worst you could screenshot it and feed it into OCR or AI

[VBF]

On 6/1/2025 at 11:32 AM, novanova said:

Yes, it is true that some websites turn off copying their text.

 

In Firefox, there is a fix: install this add-on: "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy"

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click

And for Chrome, I've just found one in the Chrome Web Store, called "Select & Copy HTML Text."

 

It works but you lose the formatting (of course) so from the website that  @novanova  quoted, what looks like this on the screen (via Snipping Tool)

 

 

Comes out like this:

 

PATTAYAPATTAYA GO-GOSLATEST NEWSPHOTO/VIDEOVIDEOS

Mr. Egg’s Rum Runner Soi Buakhao Off to Great Start
By Dave Rave News - May 25, 2025

 

There are others in the Chrome Web Store so I'd encourage the OP to look for extensions at whatever store relates to his browser, Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc.

 

[xtrnuno41]

Dont know if you are working on computer, but Irfanview gives you opportunity to copy.

It is still a free program for many years, use it decades. Love the program. Available in 32 and 64 bit.

https://www.irfanview.com/, 6 Mb only. And simple.

In options you can choose "capture screen shot" and select on the the window pop up some settings.

Of course you can do many things with it, you have to see for yourself.

Like make it sharper what you just copied, or color change, etc etc.

 

However on some, until now rare occasions, you cant do it. Again it is protected.

But overall it works. Then you have it in Irfan and you can save as a file, several extensions to choose from. like jpg.

[ChrisKC]

You can still do a screenshot! or more if a few pages!

[KhunBENQ]

3 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

You can still do a screenshot! or more if a few pages!

All methods going through images will not supply text to copy/paste. OCR needed as written above.

 

A bit off topic: Android apps can even disable the screenshot function. Top of the pops .

E g. Thai banking apps 

Stupid and annoying.

[KhunBENQ]

On 6/1/2025 at 5:32 PM, novanova said:

Yes, it is true that some websites turn off copying their text.

 

In Firefox, there is a fix: install this add-on: "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy"

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click

Works fine!