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Difference with "Select" and "Copy" availability between browsers (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It is my hope that Privacy is the community for this. I think freedom to use browsers the way we intend is a privacy issue.

We have likely all seen or heard that the “Select All” option has been removed from Safari — don’t hate me, I won’t be doing apple again.

That said, manual SELECTING of text still exists.

Here’s the privacy issue:

When I SELECT a small amount of text, I am offered the COPY option.

When I SELECT a few hundred words, even at Gutenberg, I’m given zero time to hit the copy button.

Just now I shifted to Firefox and had zero problem doing what I needed to do.

Could other interested folks confirm this SAFARI bug/irritant/annoyance?

Here’s the page I was using:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/766/pg766.txt

In safari, check what happens if you try to copy five words vs. 300 words.

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[–] SplicedBrainwrap@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wasn’t able to replicate this, in safari highlighting a couple words or several hundred words both worked fine, the copy option was there and stayed there both times. I tried on a iPad mini and an iPhone SE

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, that’s good news. Not sure why it was easy for me in Firefox but impossible in Safari.

Thanks for taking a peek.

[–] hersh 1 points 10 months ago

Any Safari extensions installed that might be interfering with this behavior? That's the best I can figure.