Lifehacker: How to Disable Copy-and-Paste Hijacking Web Sites

[tuvor]

(I'm sure I'm not the only member here who'd like to know about this. Sorry if it's already been posted. Hope it's helpful to some.)

Ever copied and pasted text from various web sites and found some extra text in your clipboard that wasn't included in the text you selected? Here's how to stop this annoying (and privacy-invading) behavior.

http://lifehacker.com/5553814/stop-sites-from-adding-citations-to-copy-and-paste-blocks

A simpler solution for FireFox users from the comments to this article: Add tyr.tynt.com to AdBlock's blacklist in Firefox.

[babylonsister]

1. Thx. I want to read this tomorrow. nt

[JeffersonChick]

2. Now if only I can figure out how to disable DoubleClick hijacking n/t

[onehandle]

3. HuffPo did this for a while.

It was very annoying. I stopped reading or linking to them for a few months until they stopped.

[kentauros]

4. I've never heard of this problem, nor had it happen.

Maybe it's because I use Opera as my standard browser :)

[pinboy3niner]

5. Thanks for this, tuvor

It's annoying when you're copying selected portions of newspaper/magazine text and find the "Read More:" URL link appended to EVERY friggin' paragraph or block of text.

The Tynt blocker fix should be a big help.

[Starry Messenger]

6. Ooh yes.

Posting here to find this in the am. Thank you!