Bigger question is, why do browsers have this feature in the first place?
Does it have any use? Like at all?
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Some sites think this will preserve their copyright or like to add some ads that whatever you copied came from site whatever.com
been using it for years :)
This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
It's pretty lame that Mozilla's addons site still doesn't show source code which is guaranteed to correspond to the binary you're installing.
Anyway, I went and read the source on github (which probably corresponds to the extension one can install) and while this part seems very straightforward this other part exceeds my understanding 😂 (i'm not suggesting it is malicious, i just don't understand everything it is doing there or why it is necessary).
What I was really looking at the source for was to see if they were simulating keystrokes (and inserting plausible delays between them) to defeat a more determined anti-pasting adversary, or if they were simply suppressing the hostile website's onPaste handler so that pastes can happen as normal. And: they are doing the latter.
I wonder if any paste-blocking websites detect and defeat this extension yet?
Can confirm. Use this one myself. Because of course my bank considers pasting into the password field to be a security risk.
Whats the JS
OMFG what asshole came up with the idea of blocking paste for fields? Whoever you are, get FUCKED
"bUt ItS a SeCuRiTy RiSk." Yeah maybe when most people were keeping their passwords in a spreadsheet. However now that they are all encrypted in password management programs its a vulnerability. If I can't generate a 40+ char password for your site then I will not be using your site if I can help it.
you are correct that most people dont keep their passwords in spreadsheets. a lot of people prefer a plaintext file on their desktop, or a note in their phones!
Lifehack: if you use the same password everywhere you don't have to note anything down.
bonus: make it something easy to remember, like your year of birth
For extra security change an o to a 0, hackers will never be able to break into your account if you do so.
thanks grandpa, helps a lot
you should do tech support for a living ❤️
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I don't even think that's what they were trying to stop, I think they just believe people making bots would only paste.
So put a timeout on too many failed logins instead.
I'm not defending the practice lmao
Probably the same ones that block “copy” for when you want to select text.
Or even better: the ones that add bullshit like "--Copied from shitheads.xyz" to all copied text
Oh, haven’t seen that one yet. Another irritation to look forward to.
Those same people think that colorblind people don't exist and there's no accessibility reason to select text. 😡
In mst cases it's a simple css property.
Btw, can webdevs please stop reimplementing scroll via js? Always a slow and buggy mess.
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100% required plugin for the modern web. :(
Can we get the same thing for when they hijack the back button to send you to some other promotional bs? I can't stand that.
the back button is broken on many legitimite sites for other reasons. i dont trust it
links go in a new tab
...until certain links are, for some idiotic reason, also handled through javascript, and don't work with "open link in new tab" or middle click. Screw those sites!
Web 2.0 was a mistake.
Oh fuck you JavaScript-link-handling.
Middle clicks link
Opens new blank tab...
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so instead of linking to the valuable add-on, you post a screenshot of a screenshot of the store page.
For people actually interested in this, it's here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/
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Don't fuck with copy too, my schools e-textbook thing won't let you copy text when quoting it for an essay.
Edit: I appreciate the help but this is on a school laptop, we can't install anything nor open inspect element. Also I already found a workaround by cntrl+c-ing before I lift the left click and it goes to highlight mode.
wow that must be super annoying. id rip my hair out.
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