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Sometimes it's intentional. I have seen both of these cases as well:
Gotta get more impressions, right?
Most of those (ignoring 1) are browser problems, not mobile problems. The browser's handle it fine on desktops (most of the time)
I guess it's mostly the mobile size sites doing extreme styling to get thinfs to fit (partly 2). I guess next time I find a bad site I should try it on a shrunk desktop window.
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You aren't exactly wrong, but nearly all of this (besides the precision point) somewhat applies on desktop as well. I think op has a point that what's happening on android is weird because most browsers don't flip out when you try and select text on desktop. I don't think the pointer method's lack of precision explains it fully.
TBH my biggest frustration with it is the opposite side of the selection moving (sometimes quite drastically) while I'm trying to move one side:
Select text from point A to point B, grab point B to move it and point A suddenly moves while you're holding B.
Next up is the page moving while I'm holding one of those points. The page scrolls suddenly to a random spot, but I can't manually scroll at all let alone scroll back to where I was. (trying by dragged to the top/bottom of the screen, the page doesn't move)
These two together make text selection a complete lost cause wherever this problem shows up.