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I honestly didn't know about Ctrl-G. You my have significantly changed my life!
isn't ctrl-g common for "find next" with shift-ctrl-g "find previous"? maybe i live too much in my IDE/text editors?
Can I just say though that disabling paste, apparently in the name of security, is the dumbest shit I have ever encountered, right in front of ultra short timeouts everywhere.
If only I could meet the people who make these decisions in person...
Ya, fucking with paste is a pet peeve of mine. What's a good argument for fucking with paste?
The only one I've ever heard is "security." Sometimes people try to "yeah it's because for security we don't want some tool to paste credentials or clickjacking mumble something malware hacking clipboard spyware javascript browser" but most of the time the truth is "our sec people need to show controls for hardening the authentication process so they came up with that and we just did it because it wasn't worth the fi…
I pointed out this was obnoxious and I’ve heard in the past copy & paste can be important for accessibility though I can’t be sure first hand.
Security BS was the reason I was given.
The irony is our IT department tells us to use a specific password manager and copy & paste usernames and complex passwords because the app doesn’t have browser integration. I assume “for security”.
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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.
A few months back someone shared several bookmarklets that they use, one of which was a simple one that disables all clipboard events on the open tab:
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
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I consider it a reduction in security because it makes entering proper random passwords more difficult - either I have to paste it somewhere else first (and leave it in plaintext on my screen) OR I have to use a more memorable/shorter password. When I can paste passwords, they can be as long as possible and never are actually visible in any way.
Completely agree. There was a particular US government-run website that I had to use that disabled pasting, and required obscenely long passwords (like 15 character minimum, at least two letters/numbers/symbols/capitals/etc), and forced rotation every 60 days, and aggressively blocked "keyboard patterns" and once a password had been used, it couldn't be used again forever. Given I only had to log in about once every…
(And the site still sucks- you can't use the back button at all, for example-- but it sucks infinitesimally less now)
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I honestly didn't know about Ctrl-G. You my have significantly changed my life!
isn't ctrl-g common for "find next" with shift-ctrl-g "find previous"? maybe i live too much in my IDE/text editors?
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