I hate whoever that was

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

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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.

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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

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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

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https://www.kodemuse.dev/enable-copy-paste/

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you da MVP

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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.

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

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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!

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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.

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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

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I blame browsers

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Meanwhile:

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

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Or for the lazy, screenshot!

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https://github.com/jswanner/DontF-WithPaste

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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.

KryptoSynth

https://webextension.org/listing/allow-right-click.html

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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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.

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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