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Just use a button

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HocusLocus ◴[] No.45776149[source]
A whole generation of people who click all over to find places that do something. People have this problem where they feel 'proudly vested' in learning things that just weren't designed well.

10 years ago someone decided that dragging links is so much more important than selecting text, selecting text is scarcely possible. I'm going to have to fork a browser to give link-dragging the demotion it deserves. It was probably those DIV guys.

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1. ForLoveOfCats ◴[] No.45776534[source]
I might be a weirdo but I drag links all the time as it's how I open links as background tabs even though there is a right-click context menu entry for it

Unless the site is _really_ messing with events, holding alt on PC (Windows/Linux/ect) or Option on macOS lets you select text in links without triggering the link to navigate.

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2. ivanche ◴[] No.45777610[source]
Holy fsck! 30 years on the web and today I learn about this Alt/Option trick. Thank you!
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3. Telaneo ◴[] No.45778764[source]
[Middle mouse button] or [left mouse button + ctrl] also does this.
4. MangoToupe ◴[] No.45781616[source]
How about on mobile? This is a constant headache.
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5. buzzy_hacker ◴[] No.45781691[source]
Same here, that literally just changed my life
6. zuhsetaqi ◴[] No.45781858[source]
Select something directly before or after the link and then move the start and end of your selection to only select the link.