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I took the liberty of making your bookmarklets easier to edit/share with my tool bookmarkl.ink [1].

Don't Mess With Paste: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/6e3869d8e468e016f22a4b4de...

Nebula No-Alt-#: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/6e3869d8e468e016f22a4b4de...

Canvas DL: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/6e3869d8e468e016f22a4b4de...

you have listing page to browse these?

Unfortunately, no. This is a simple pet project aimed at easing sharing/versioning of bookmarklets. The site is entirely static. Listing bookmarklets is, however, something I'd love to add.

A simple and sensible way to list bookmarklets may be scraping GitHub's own search [1]. Using a flag in gists such as `// bookmarklink-index` or similar may be a good way to go.

[1] https://gist.github.com/search?q=extension%3Ajs+bookmarklet_...

Love seeing cool stuff like this, thank you.

The proper way would be a bookmarklet that renders a list of bookmarklets.

Thanks for your site, and to the GP who made Don't Mess With Paste!

Feel free to add this if you want, I have it in my firefox called "UnfuckSlack" which puts the old slack UI back:

javascript:(function() { localStorage.setItem("localConfig_v2", localStorage.getItem("localConfig_v2").replace(/\"is_unified_user_client_enabled\":true/g, '\"is_unified_user_client_enabled\":false')); location.reload(); })();

As you wish! https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/6e3869d8e468e016f22a4b4de...

I have "increment" and "decrement" bookmarklets, that look for the last-most number in a url and make it go up or down by one. I'm always surprised at how often it's useful. Oh, and I have this one called "kill sticky",

    javascript:( function(){ let i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *'); for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { if(getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') { elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]); } } document.body.style.overflow = "auto"; document.body.style.position = "static"; })()

Which deletes those annoying page-covering popups like "sign up for my newsletter" or "you need to log in (even though the content is right there*)"

I have a slightly longer one that also makes gets rid of the various `overflow:hidden` stylings since it seemed like I'd often kill an annoying popover with the content _right there_ to find that I couldn't scroll down anymore.

``` javascript:(function(){document.querySelectorAll("body ").forEach(function(node){if(["fixed","sticky"].includes(getComputedStyle(node).position)){node.parentNode.removeChild(node)}});document.querySelectorAll("html ").forEach(function(node){var s=getComputedStyle(node);if("hidden"===s["overflow"]){node.style["overflow"]="visible"}if("hidden"===s["overflow-x"]){node.style["overflow-x"]="visible"}if("hidden"===s["overflow-y"]){node.style["overflow-y"]="visible"}});var htmlNode=document.querySelector("html");htmlNode.style["overflow"]="visible";htmlNode.style["overflow-x"]="visible";htmlNode.style["overflow-y"]="visible"})(); ```

GPT-4 appears to be able to cut around 180 characters off while keeping the same functionality.

   ((e,l)=>{[...e.querySelectorAll("body")].forEach((e=>{["fixed","sticky"].includes(l(e).position)&&e.parentNode.removeChild(e)})),[...e.querySelectorAll('html,[style\*="overflow"]')].forEach((e=>{["hidden"].includes(l(e).overflow)&&(e.style.overflow="visible"),["hidden"].includes(l(e)["overflow-x"])&&(e.style["overflow-x"]="visible"),["hidden"].includes(l(e)["overflow-y"])&&(e.style["overflow-y"]="visible")}));let o=e.querySelector("html");o.style.overflow=o.style["overflow-x"]=o.style["overflow-y"]="visible"})(document,getComputedStyle);

https://chat.openai.com/share/4c6710b5-9c81-415b-85fc-b33e69...

Wow!

This used to be a feature in Opera a decade ago IIRC.

It is still a feature in Vivaldi, Opera's spiritual successor.

For things you need to always run Grease Monkey seems like a prime choice. You could have your script run automatically for every visit to a nebula page.

By default Greasemonkey can access all data on all pages. With extensions being routinely compromised to steal crypto that’s starting to look like a bad deal. (If you limit it to a single domain in Chrome it will nag you to unlock it on Chrome startup forever)

I am weirdly more afraid of installing chrome extensions than executables on my machine

Violetmonkey is opensource.

I only use a few and they're simple enough I can read them before updating to see if they're bringing in something weird. Also in GP's case they could just write their own since they're already making them. No exploitable surface there if it's not a remote updatable script.

It's not the bookmarklets that OP is warning about, it's the risk that the GreaseMonkey extension itself becomes compromised. Basically, it's good browser hygiene to keep the number of extensions you have installed to an absolute minimum.

A bookmarklet alone isn't so much a concern, both because it doesn't run automatically on all pages (only when clicked) and because, as you note, you can usually pretty easily audit what you add and you don't get automatic updates.

> you don't get automatic updates

Unless the bookmarklet updates itself by loading code from another URL. This is blocked by some websites but not all.

By default Chrome can access all data on all pages. With browsers being routinely compromised by advertising companies working against your interest that's starting to look like a bad deal.

This is an important point. The only solution we're ever offered for security concerns is centralizing more and more control in the platform companies hands even though those same companies are increasingly abusing their power.

Violentmonkey might be the better recommendation now, as it's still in active development, while Greasemonkey seems kinda dead.

Is there any real need for ongoing development? Seems like GM has the features you need to get the work done.

It's a matter of compatibility and bug fixing. Might be not a problem at the moment, but over time a dead project will degrade and make problems. So if one starts now, they can also just start with the more active project. After all there is AFAIK no disadvantage in using VM over GM.

Force pasting is something that is unfortunately required in many places, not just the browser. For example a Citrix session where the Citrix admin decided that pasting was a security risk and hence blocked it. Or some very poorly written apps.

For all of these I use an apple script that emulates typing one letter at a time, with a small delay because Citrix can't deal with typing which is too fast.

It's based on Force Paste: https://github.com/EugeneDae/Force-Paste

I invoke it with a shortcut (Alfred on macOS for example) and it's a life saver multiple times a day. Weirdly satisfying to watch happening =)

Why do some sign up forms block pasting from the clipboard?

My city does this, as well as preventing right clicks, as a "copy protection mechanism", complete with an `alert()` shaming you every time you have the audacity to try and cut and paste some text.

They are worried about someone copying a mistyped email from the first form field and pasting it into the "confirm email" field, thus making the confirmation field pointless. I would suspect in the real world most people are typing their email by hand and not using a password manager or auto-fill so this becomes an actual problem.

A nice implementation of this would detect that you pasted/auto-filled the original field and not prompt you to confirm unless you typed it slowly by hand.

> "Don't mess with paste"

You are my hero

Oh that first one... that is sweet.