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		jonknee on Jan 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life It's not a fear of being crawled, it's link tracking. It has been discussed a bunch of times (how they show the link in the status bar but then the internal link is what shows up in the clip board). The easiest way around this is to just click the link and copy it from your browser. http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011...

jacquesm on Jan 15, 2013 [–]

That works with any link type except for pdfs which start 'okular' on my machine, and then I don't have access to the link.

jonknee on Jan 15, 2013 | [–]

Ah, that makes sense. PDFs render in the browser for me so it's no different than any other URL.

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