Quote:Jinx999 wrote:Okay, while I knew about the sudden inability to select text in FFN, I was unaware about the thing with flagfic. Hell, I had to google it in order to grok what was going on. And then I came across this article:Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Yep. I suspect it was the same time they blocked flagfic.
BTW,
has anyone else noticed that FF.NET is running a script of some sort to
prevent you from selecting and copying blocks of text on its pages? I
had to NoScript the site before I could copy that line I quoted, which
then turned everything on the page into centered text.
http://www.teleread.com/net-related-too ... d-pasting/
The blogger doesn't really come right on out and say it, but it's obvious what he's getting at: FFN is trying to generate more revenue by forcing us to see their ads. They do so by attempting to eliminate methods of saving the text to read in another format of our choosing and upping the number of advertisements on their website.
Unfortunately, as we have seen with the dreaded TV Tropes Fiasco, it's their site and they make the rules... But I for one can say that I will never host any fic using FFN (or Fictionpress for that matter) due to this turn of events.