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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no, thats another layer down. hell + ultra

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lol yea the comic artist needs to come up with a follow-up 4panel with extra-extra-hell lmao

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I ran into this when trying to paste my generated password into the password field on some kind of financial site and I think it is still the most egregious case of security theater I’ve seen yet.

Anyway, you want the “don’t fuck with paste” extension, available on both chrome and firefox.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

You don't need this - In about:config, set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false. No Addon needed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The comment hero!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I blame browsers

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

On macOS:

Love that Keyboard Maestro has an “Insert Text By Typing” feature/macro where text streams from your cursor :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If all the other things fail, you can still use an auto-typer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

In about:config, set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Public computers should just have their pastebin locked.

They shouldn't mess with things on my personal computer.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just as evil are the pages that don’t let you select text or pictures for copying.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can't copy our JPEGs! That's stealing! If you want to look at these JPEGs whenever you want, you need to register for an account and tag your favorites so we can monitor your viewing habits and sell your personality profile to advertisers and government entities!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile:

Sure thing, pal! I'm just gonna take a peek at the HTML real quick...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or for the lazy, screenshot!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or training videos that pause if the window playing the video is not the last thing clicked on.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can sometimes do it anyway by right clicking (or long hold tap) on the text field to get a contextual menu popup

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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

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