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This was one of those things that frustrated me so much that we ended building this natively into Orion browser (Tools menu -> Allow Copy & Paste). [1] One of the joys of building your own browser. [1] https://kagi.com/orion
Cheers for making Orion. I don't know how you guys managed to support Firefox and Chrome extensions (on iOS) but it's amazing and made moving from Android so much easier!
You shouldn't need to trust an addon for this, it's something you should be able to set in the browser. In firefox you can toggle dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
IME this breaks paste functionality in some web apps (eg. certain terminal emulators or text editors)
Actually, don’t answer that. I’m afraid of the answer.
For something simple like this that doesn't really need to be on all the time I've started leaning back towards bookmarklets over extensions. The code is usually simple enough to actually audit, it only runs when you click the bookmarklet, and it doesn't update underneath you without warning. A few months back someone shared several bookmarklets that they use, one of which was a simple one that disables all clipboard…
Also you can get the extension loaded locally, and it will never update
There is one thing I hate more. Its having my cursor moved to another application as I am typing out a password in a field. I've literally had to change a password after it suddenly got sent out in a google search when I wasn't paying attention.
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IME this breaks paste functionality in some web apps (eg. certain terminal emulators or text editors)
Who’s using terminal emulators and text editors in their browser? Actually, don’t answer that. I’m afraid of the answer.
google docs, WYSIWYG editors built into any number of webapps
>terminal emulators
ssh/serial consoles on whatever your hosting provider is. Sure, sometimes there's a command line tool to do the same on your OS's terminal emulator, but if it's for a task that you're doing once every few months (eg. recovering a bricked server), clicking a button on a website and getting a shell is just more convenient.
Ya, fucking with paste is a pet peeve of mine. What's a good argument for fucking with paste?
On the github "delete repository" screen or other extremely destructive actions, it stops you from muscle-memorying the confirmation and then accidentally deleting the wrong thing. Since you are actually forced, like really forced, to type out what you expect to happen, you won't delete my-important-work-repo when you meant to delete my-temp-test-repo.
This[1] alternative bookmarklet was posted here a while back. [1]: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/6e3869d8e468e016f22a4b4de...
Bookmarklets are seriously undervalued. This is a simple and more importantly readable fix for the issue.