I think Chrome has a reader mode as well...

Enabling text copying from fanfiction.net by Thoth on 2021-08-22 18:40:57 UTC Reply

It's recently come to my attention that fanfiction.net has disabled copying of fics on the mobile site. This is a real pain if you, say, want to copy the contents of a fic from fanfiction.net for some reason.

Fortunately, this is solvable through the magic of browser extensions and five minutes of my time making it work.

Download GreaseMonkey for Firefox. Alternatively, download ViolentMonkey, which works with most browsers. I haven't tested ViolentMonkey but there's no reason this shouldn't work with it. Probably.
Download the ffn-yescopy script. Click "Raw" on the linked page, and greasemonkey or violentmonkey will prompt you with the option to install the script. You can click install, and it will be installed.
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Profit.

No, really, that's it. The script will autorun whenever you browse to fanfiction.net and undo that pesky copy disabling. Of course, you are letting me run code on your computer (it should be properly sandboxed, but still), so hopefully you trust me. Although the code should be short enough to read (my code is one line and then it relies on 30 lines of other people's code, and jquery, which is so widely used that you can probably trust it).

Hopefully this is useful.

Doesn't Firefox's reader mode also work? (nm) by owosphere on 2021-08-23 15:09:21 UTC Reply

...Or that could work, yes by Thoth on 2021-08-23 17:18:02 UTC Reply

...D'oh.

All that work for nothing. Ah well!

Well, not everyone uses Firefox. by Neshomeh on 2021-08-23 21:09:00 UTC Reply

This might still be helpful for folks on Chrome or something else. Thanks! {= )

~Neshomeh

I think Chrome has a reader mode as well... by Thoth on 2021-08-24 16:49:26 UTC Reply

So it's not the most useful. Although it does basically just make all the fanfics on the site copyable with no work from you once it's installed.

...I should probably also make it work with wattpad, since that's the other big fanfic site that blocks copy/paste...

For the uninitiated... by Huinesoron on 2021-08-25 13:17:43 UTC Reply

... what is a Reader Mode and how would one activate or access it?

hS

It's a minimalist view... by Thoth on 2021-08-26 00:28:40 UTC Reply

...That removes all the clutter and ads and everything but the main text from the page.

In firefox, any site where reader mode works will show a little "page" icon on the far right of the address bar, which you can click to go to reader mode. In Chrome, the feature is hidden, but go to chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode and set "Enable Reader Mode" to "Enabled". When you restart the browser, a "distill page" option will appear in the upper-right "three-dot" menu.