Stung by a Bad Purchase and Faltering in Digital Era, Xerox Decides to Split Up

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Warning! This site autoplays a video as soon as the page loads.

It also apparently attempts to prevent the user from selecting any text.

I'm a subscriber to NYT, and their increasingly unfriendly online presence has me wondering if I should drop my subscription.

I can select text in tmux without any problems.

I guess your browser is allowing the NYT web developers to remotely control it, e.g., to disable select/copy/paste?

>I guess your browser is allowing the NYT web developers to remotely control it, e.g., to disable select/copy/paste?

No shit, Sherlock.

I could (and do) work around this when I need to, but my point here is that their decision to engage in this obnoxious sort of behavior is going to lose them a subscriber.

> No shit, Sherlock.

Please don't.

I'm not getting this. Does it require Javascript?

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