NYT Click/Select Override

The New York Times' website prevents text selection and has weird font size changing behavior on double click. This script prevents that functionality.

Du musst eine Erweiterung wie Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey oder Violentmonkey installieren, um dieses Skript zu installieren.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

Sie müssten eine Skript Manager Erweiterung installieren damit sie dieses Skript installieren können

(Ich habe schon ein Skript Manager, Lass mich es installieren!)

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         NYT Click/Select Override
// @description  The New York Times' website prevents text selection and has weird font size changing behavior on double click. This script prevents that functionality.
// @icon         http://www.nytimes.com/favicon.ico
// @match        *://*.nytimes.com/*
// @namespace    https://github.com/bytesized/
// @version      1.0
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

function prevent_events(id_str) {
  let element = document.getElementById(id_str);
  let events_to_prevent = ["doubletap", "dragstart", "mousedown", "selectstart", "touchstart"];
  for (let event_name of events_to_prevent) {
    element.addEventListener(event_name, event_obj => event_obj.stopPropagation(), true);
  }
}

prevent_events("story");
prevent_events("main");