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