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Being unable to select text out of a link is absolutely infuriating when you want to just copy a piece of it, either because it's a reference number or something, or you want to translate it. Mobile is nearly impossible, and desktop is also fiddly in many cases.

Often when translating it's easier to just OCR the area with the dictionary app, which is madness when it started as text.


At least in Firefox, holding down alt while selecting let's you do it within a link without triggering a click event.
TIL. Thank you!

Now I just have to remember this next time I need to select text within a link. :)

Wow. How could I not know but needed this since ages. Thank you!

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