Just as evil are the pages that don’t let you select text or pictures for copying.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2025
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Sure thing, pal! I'm just gonna take a peek at the HTML real quick...
I believe you can hold ALT then select on Firefox when that comes up, but I don't think I've seen it in years.
Or training videos that pause if the window playing the video is not the last thing clicked on.
Which makes taking notes while the video is playing basically impossible
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no, thats another layer down. hell + ultra
Lol yea the comic artist needs to come up with a follow-up 4panel with extra-extra-hell lmao
TBF, I kind of get it. If someone is using a public computer you wouldn't want someone to be able to sign into a site they left open because they copied their password.
However, this won't prevent anyone from copying the password into something like notepad and just typing it out. So in the end, it's useless and makes things less user friendly. Which is what I expect these days.
- User pastes something into site
- data still pasted as normal
- JScript event clears clipboard and tells user that their clipboard was safely cleared.
Literally just as secure and better behavior. Just use your brain for a few seconds.
Edit: Actually it's MORE secure because disallowing paste leaves the password or whatever in the clipboard without the user necessarily realizing it...
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I suspect the reasoning for it was more along the lines of "if you're pasting the password, that means you probably saved it in a text file on your desktop or something, and you shouldn't do that so let's stop you from doing it". In reality, it probably didn't work to make anyone store passwords more securely, and only made life unnecessarily harder for people with password managers
Public computers should just have their pastebin locked.
They shouldn't mess with things on my personal computer.
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Came here hoping someone would explain how to use dev tools to remove that block or if there an addon for that, really hate this kind of restriction
In about:config, set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.
On macOS:
Love that Keyboard Maestro has an “Insert Text By Typing” feature/macro where text streams from your cursor :)
Firefox often let's you bypass this shit with holding shift + right click or select the text you want to paste and drag and drop it into the field.
Man, that extension fucked with my Vivaldi. I couldnt send msgs on Twitch, couldnt delete cells on GoogleSheets and spent like an hour trying to figure out what caused it. Not worth the trouble tbh
Also on vivaldi, I now have three extensions that destroy half the pages on the web (and save the other half). With a little bit of whitelisting or just temporarily enabling, they work fine.
If all the other things fail, you can still use an auto-typer.
https://webextension.org/listing/allow-right-click.html (downloads at the top)
You go to the offending page, click on the extension icon and it should remove the restrictions (if it doesnt work, you can try changing some of its settings)
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You can sometimes do it anyway by right clicking (or long hold tap) on the text field to get a contextual menu popup
They've started blocking that too on phones, which is what led to this meme lol. Curiously, GBoard has a little button on the top row that shows for freshly copied text when you go into a text field that still works, GBoard must not send the text as a paste when it's done that way. But its only visible once
Unexpected Keyboard has a similar optional key — which website are you using with this behavior? I wonder if pasting from it would trigger the detection. Also, it lets you bind strings to keys — I wonder if that would act in a similar manner.
So far, it's worked wherever Ive encountered the "advanced" paste blocking. Just recently, my bank loan payment form has done this that I needed to use the "last resort" option lmao
I blame browsers
Well, stop. The problem is caused by mid-level managers who think they know better than the Worldwide Web Consortium.