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I consider this a bad faith comment given the amount of detail you described taking a screenshot vs copying the text.

Anyway, it's not a noteworthy amount of effort, no. If your text selection of the button was blocked, which is the whole point of this discussion, the other methods would be a fine alternative. Or would you give up because it's too much effort?

I just tried both on the reply button for this very comment box.

> One involves clicking just before the button and dragging to just after the button (or vice versa)

This didn't work. Text is not selectable. Do you know why it doesn't work? Because user-select: none is the default user agent style on input[type=submit].

How about the screenshot?

    - keyboard shortcut for screenshot
    - click and drag
    - click chatgpt tab
    - keyboard shortcut for paste
How about the phone app?

    - open translate app
    - tap camera
    - point at button
Again, neither of these were a noteworthy amount of effort.


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