Comments on: How to Copy and Select Text from Snopes.com

By: Cindy Cara

Cindy Cara — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:59:15 +0000

A good reason for this is that Snopes might update their site (they don’t want old stuff out there) or words may be taken out of context and may misprepresent their point.
I always include a link to a page I quote – if not my usual recipients, I write “Always click here for the latest information”.

By: Lenoxus

Lenoxus — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:41:35 +0000

One good reason for Snopes to do this is so that if you see an email/forum post with a “real excerpt from the Snopes page that PROVES thus-and-such” then you can know it probably isn’t an excerpt, because copying is difficult. (And will therefore take the trouble to go to the page yourself.)

On the other hand, the problem is that most people don’t know this about Snopes, and therefore dishonest folks, playing off people’s laziness, have an advantage over honest ones.

By: FF 6.01

FF 6.01 — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:52:06 +0000

With Firefox 6, CTRL+A works fine, as does disabling javascript from tools/options/content.

However, none of the javascript commands themselves seemed to work for me. I even tried them in an IE tab to see if that might magically work.

By: Jim Willittes

Jim Willittes — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:41:58 +0000

I have been using the command “javascript:void(document.onselectstart=null)” by copying and pasting it into the browsers of IE and Chome. Recently It stopped working so I looked at the command after I pasted it. It was missing “javascript:” at the beginning. I couldn’t get either browser to show the complete command after pasting so I manually typed in “javascript:” and it worked. Quotation marks in this post are not part of the needed command. Leave them out.

By: Mc42angel

Mc42angel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:33:00 +0000

Pasting javascript:void(document.onselectstart=null) into address bar and selectin “enter” did not work for me

By: Guadasol

Guadasol — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:58:00 +0000

Thanks a lot. It worked with google chrome.

By: Queen of Bellrock

Queen of Bellrock — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:06:00 +0000

Isn’t it nice that snopes provides a work-around for those with colorblindness, and it’s right in their FAQ: http://www.snopes.com/info/faq.asp#colors

But if you disable Java to “borrow” their copyrighted content, you also disable the colorblindness work-around.

By: SteveC

SteveC — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:56:00 +0000

I’m using Windows Vista and Firefox 3.6. In the Menu Bar, go to Tools–>Options…–>Content (tab)–>uncheck Enable JavaScript. You can now copy and paste to your heart’s content.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:09:00 +0000

Works for me on my aging Mac. So sorry it’s taken me this long to search and discover a solution for this problem!

By: Yet Another Blogger

Yet Another Blogger — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:15:00 +0000

Thanks.

Cutting’n'pasting a snippet for a fair use quote is not stealing. I doubt that this slows down the ne’er-do-wells.