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.

  • SplicedBrainwrap@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    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

    • wowwoweowzaOP
      4·
      11 months ago

      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@literature.cafe
        1·
        11 months ago

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