Don't fuck with paste • Hacker News Board

theflyingelvis wrote: post #14

jfoutz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

seems like an unmaintained fork of the less provocative, https://github.com/jswanner/DontF-WithPaste

I mean it doesn’t really offend me but it would be difficult to say recommend it to my mom. I guess it’s just me.

Agreed. It doesn't offend me personally, but it's considered NSFW language in most workplaces. I would never name a project like that

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by RheingoldRiver » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

swayvil wrote: post #3

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.

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by varenc » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

jessriedel wrote: post #12

> In order to provide the smoothest experience as possible, the extension needs to know when you change active tabs. In order for the extension to know about that event, it needs the tabs permission, which Chrome describes as "can read and change all your data on websites you visit." That description is very scary, and is certainly not what this extension is doing. Being an open-sourced project, you can always read a…

I get around that by downloading the extension source and then using Chrome extension developer mode to “load unpacked extension”. Then I’m confident the extension won’t change on me.

(But for this extension I don’t give it all site permissions anyway. I just enable on site by site basis)

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by freediver » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

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

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by Solvency » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

How about an extension that STOPS websites from NOT letting me right-click. When a site forceS me to go through the stupid Chrome menu to laboriously drill down and find Developer Tools manually I want to throw it out the window.

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by autoexec » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:21 AM UTC

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

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by moralestapia » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:22 AM UTC

Thanks for this!

Also related,

Who t.f. thought that

* Ctrl-V should be "paste with format"

* Meta-Shift-Whatever-Ctrl-V should be "paste without format"

I've never EVER had the need to copy some text and paste it with a different font face, color and ffs background color ...

Who is the genius UX expert that decided on this abhorrent behavior?

Re: Don't fuck with paste

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Post by seiferteric » Fri, Mar 08, 2024, 1:23 AM UTC

Also annoying, not labeling your inputs right so auto-fill doesn't work.