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otuatail

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Yes this is odd

 

The following website is a recipe, however no matter how much or how little you copy and paste into notepad (getting rid of formatting) you get an extra line 

 

Read more: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/quesadilla/#ixzz4Lp5hmm6l

 

In the method of cooking copy paragraph 1 2 and 3 seperatly. you always get the extra URL Read more...

 

Read more is not in the text.

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And your question is... how they do it? They do it by using a script from some folks named Tynt (which is apparently now called "33across"?). That script does it by... well, I'm not sure, it's obfuscated, but likely by a trick where you listen for an oncopy event, create a new hidden element with the selection plus the "read more" text, select that, let oncopy do its thing, then remove the element.

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