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

By: Betty

Betty — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00:03 +0000

Thanks for your info. You have a small typo error on this page – past instead of paste.
“To override the evil of snopes, just past the following into the address bar of your browser and press ENTER:”

I used & recommended your site often when I worked as a technology specialist in a school system. I use it more now for personal use. Thanks for all of your hard work and worthwhile information.

By: ChrisC

ChrisC — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:50:33 +0000

Thanks for the great tip, as others have said, I always like to include relevant text with a link in emails for anyone who can't be bothered to click through to the page itself. They may not realise it, but small actions such as this make myself (and I'm sure others) less likely to use them in the future.

In searching for a way round the block, I also found another JavaScript hack, http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/dis... unfortunately this code doesn't get round that, anyone know how to hack it?

Thanks again.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:54:52 +0000

Also, you can drag this URL into your link bar or make a bookmark with this location, to quickly perform this action on any (snopes) page. Probably will also work with pages that disable right-clicking, so it may be a useful “bookmarklet” … thanks again!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:52:17 +0000

Excellent tip! But the onselectstart event is only supported in IE. For Firefox or other "A-Grade" browsers, use onmousedown like this:

javascript:void(document.onmousedown=null)

Probably should update the original post to reflect, since it seems like I wasn't the only person who tried the instructions and found they didn't work. Haven't you heard? IE is an endangered species!

By: adoxa

adoxa — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:55:39 +0000

Tried your advice many times (in Firefox) and it does not help one iota. What am I doing wrong??

I use this in the browser as suggested. Snopes will not budge.
javascript:void(document.onselectstart=null)

By: maxappet1te

maxappet1te — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:19:28 +0000

firefox 3.0.8

I only ctrl + a ; copy + paste then edit

no problems with snopes, don't know about others

- maxappet1te

By: Grimpen

Grimpen — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:06:11 +0000

It is bad form. I have a standard sort of format when I respond to people who send me these Urban Legends and whatnot. I offer a link to my primary or most representative source for refuting the claim, and then usually a little snippet of text for those too lazy to follow the link. Basically Snopes breaks my ability to quote them, which makes it more likely I'll go with a Wikipedia link and quote, so why do they do it?

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:23:04 +0000

Thanks! This works great in IE but not in Firefox. This is definitely poor form for snopes. Not allowing people to copy article text just results in people spending time figuring out how to work around the problem rather than causing them to only send a link. Besides, I like to include key paragraphs from snopes (in addition to the link) when I reply to the ridiculous chain emails I get so as to summarize the info for the people who clearly don't do much reading and reasoning on their own.

By: joyce Routman

joyce Routman — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:00:01 +0000

how can I send information to SNOPES when I don't have a proper address???

By: Don

Don — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:11:20 +0000

USE A BOOKMARKLET
In Google Chrome of Windows XP I created a new page on the bookmark bar (right click on the bar) named “Void Script”. Then I added the script in place of a URL. When on a page thats is blocked I just click on the bookmarkelt.

GREAT WITH GOOGLE NOTES
When researching a topic, Google Notes is great–like a bookmark with sampled text and images added. But it requires highlighting the text & images. Now I can use it on more sites