You can prevent such nonsense in Firefox by disabling JavaScript clipboard events by setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config.

Wow what asshole design. Never come across that before. On iOS you can freely copy any text selection in reader mode in Safari. Perhaps something similar could work on android.

It looks like you can copy snippets that don't include an end-of-paragraph.

I don't like it either, but I would guess this was supposed to be a feature, a benefit, not a way to prevent AI scraping. I don't think it would prevent AI scraping.

Firefox mobile + reader view = problem solved

Yeah that’s crazy. Funnily enough though on iOS Safari I can select the text I want, then drag it to a text field in another app. I could also screenshot the text and grab it from the screenshot if I were that interested.

i can copy anything from there on fennec with ublock

I don't know how it works, but I've had similar with economictimes.indiatimes.com and it's on pc too, just copies a few words and then "read more at Https....

Select all -> Copy is working fine for me using firefox on android mobile, at least.

You can do this kind of JS fuckery and overwrite the default copy behaviour.

document.addEventListener("copy", (event) => {
  event.clipboardData.setData(
    "text/plain",
    "This is the text that will actually be pasted!"
  );

  event.preventDefault();
});

Though I would always consider this super hostile design. The only sane place where something like this should be is a copy button you can click to automatically copy something into the clipboard.

This is definitely entirely unrelated to the AI ecosystem. It doesn't stop scraping, and nobody with any experience in the industry would think it does. I don't know why they created this feature, but it has nothing to do with LLMs.