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It's not just a browser thing. Apple Books does this with their e-books, which is infuriating if you're working with a coding book and just want to copy-paste stuff into your editor/terminal. You get something like: “ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value)” Excerpt From: Bryan O’Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Donald Bruce Stewart. “Real World Haskell.” Apple Books. When you only copied: ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value) Note th…
I agree and share the frustration. A stock Apple application "Books" does something similar as well. When copying text -- using keyboard shortcut or the context menu rendered as soon as you lift your mouse (another tragedy) -- your clipboard will look something like the following (2 lines): “ ” Excerpt From: . “ .” Apple Books. That gets written to your clipboard; quotes and everything.
as does the kindle app. it's come in handy once for me (in a comment to a hn post, ironically), but usually it's a nuisance.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/855az.png
Selecting "prompt" will result in this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/jvDUh.png
I set it to Prompt for trusted sites, and Disabled for all others.
It's not just a browser thing. Apple Books does this with their e-books, which is infuriating if you're working with a coding book and just want to copy-paste stuff into your editor/terminal. You get something like: “ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value)” Excerpt From: Bryan O’Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Donald Bruce Stewart. “Real World Haskell.” Apple Books. When you only copied: ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value) Note th…
Wonder if an author will rename themself sudo rm -rf / with the proper escape codes.
Really, the web just gets more and more vile towards users. Sure, highly technical folk are capable of working around this all -- but the vast majority of people do not have a browser that is _working for them_: - You have little to no control over what content you are seeing. Instead, it is chosen for you. - A large number of videos (not even including movies and shows) are geographically blocked. You cannot access…
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I think the wrongest thing is that this is a clear attack vector... make a site with helpful Linux shortcuts, then replace every copy with "curl malicious script and run it, plus a newline to make it run immediately"
> plus a newline to make it run immediately I already mentioned this in another comment, but everyone should enable bracket paste mode in their shell to defend against this. https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste
It's not just a browser thing. Apple Books does this with their e-books, which is infuriating if you're working with a coding book and just want to copy-paste stuff into your editor/terminal. You get something like: “ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value)” Excerpt From: Bryan O’Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Donald Bruce Stewart. “Real World Haskell.” Apple Books. When you only copied: ghci> putStrLn (pretty 10 value) Note th…
It sounds ridiculous, but in my experience, there are 1000 things that lawyers will identify as possible sources for legal trolling and this looks like that. Apple has a zillion dollars in the bank and they are sued daily. All it takes is for a judge who may nor not be knowledgable or a sufficiently grey area ... and you have a major problem.
So it could be risk mitigation: they are including the attribution in the copy so as to not be perceived as partisan to some kind of IP dissolution paradigm.
On the other hand, this could just be one of those wayward culty Apple kinds of things they think is 'good UI' when it's not.
Most importantly, https://emdash.fan/ is the best emdash site on the internet.
My go-to site for copying special symbols is Wikipedia, which is, of course, well-behaved: Dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash Diacritics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic Precomposed Latin characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_precomposed_Latin_char... Currency symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol Japanese typographic symbols https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_typo…
So this: "em--dash" becomes this: "em—dash" while this: "en -- dash" becomes this: "en – dash"
It's all so silly and doesn't increase site visits in any meaningful way.
Sidenote: I'm glad javascript in browsers is a lot more standard so you don't have to get stupidly hacky.
Does this mean that any currently running app (or maybe not even currently running, perhaps there's an event system) can see my clipboard?
My feeling about this is unprintable.
I started planning a clipboard app that doesn't allow this but I'm busy and I'd prefer this wasn't something I need to fix in the first place.
