Boeing 777F production reportedly halted for nearly two months by supplier dispute
www.airdatanews.com
Widebody freighter has delivered 21 aircraft this year and recently received FAA approval to remain in production through 2030

On mobile if I try to copy a paragraph or two to my web browser clipboard it literally won’t on this website.

I assume this is because of AI scraping or whatever but this has got to be the most insulting, condescending UI design I have encountered in a long time.

I distinctly remember people laughing at me about saying this would happen…

Ughhh.

Also yes I know there are probably a million ways to get around this but the point is this is just so fucking pointlessly stupid.

This is what it looks like on android.

I wanted to share your article with an interesting quote I picked to add a personal touch and thus encourage people to read the full article you assholes, but ok fine I will never go to this website again…

Oh wait but I can feed ALL of the text into Google’s AI slop machine just by swiping down because of course I can still do that, that makes sense.

  • supersquirrel@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    62·
    17 days ago

    I specifically DO NOT want to copy the whole article though! I just wanted to quote a small section as a teaser and window into the full article.

    This kind of tit-for-tat mindless evolution of UI design just slaps me in the face because the website has defended itself against AI slopscrawlers by… locking out a human trying to share two paragraphs they picked from their article and still letting the slopcrawlers take it all anyways…

    What does a publication have if they do not have word of mouth advertising? Why has AI so thoroughly broken peoples’ ability to critically think?

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      The weirder part is that AI scrapers don’t give a damn about selecting paragraphs out - so this feature is either incredibly poorly thought through, or was outright intended to prevent exactly what you’re trying to do.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      Dragging and copying is also working for me on Firefox for Android. E.g.:

      Three Boeing employees familiar with the situation told Reuters that 777F production had not resumed by October 23 despite Boeing and Florida-based supplier Vaero reaching a settlement in late September.

      […]

      Some additional 777Fs could still be handed over before the end of 2026 because their wings were assembled before the supplier dispute, according to employees cited by Reuters.

      Edit: And a courtesy link to the original Reuters article.

      • supersquirrel@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        Thank you for the courtesy link, I am sure there are ways to do it, but I shouldn’t have to.