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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

I wish I could selectively disable only the "paste" events, because it's extremely useful to have "click to copy this value" type of buttons in our various work tools, and I miss the ability to do that every time I try turning off clipboard events to deal with bad actors.

The solution to this is to treat your clipboard as public in the long term. Don't keep sensitive data in it for longer than you need it. KeePass does this and it's great.

Even when your password is erased from the clipboard after 10 seconds, that's enough for any of the tabs open in your browser to steal it.

IME this breaks paste functionality in some web apps (eg. certain terminal emulators or text editors)

The worst is when it breaks web apps in really confusing, weird, and broken ways.

Slack, for example. Pasting becomes a complete clusterfuck. Things paste in the wrong location, incompletely, etc. I have no idea how they manage to fuck up "paste in a text box"...

Facebook Messenger also broke last time I used it where the tab would start using 100% CPU, but it's been a few years since I last used it, so don't know if that's still the case.

Anyway, I really wish I could do this per website. I have it disabled because GitHub started doing weird and annoying shit when I copy/paste stuff from comments and I absolutely hate it. But ... then it breaks Slack :-/

> I have no idea how they manage to fuck up "paste in a text box"...

For over 5 years Enter has been broken in YouTube's comment text fields. It inserts a new line but often won't move the cursor. Last year for a while they changed the text to black in the dark theme and it was impossible to write comments because the text fields simply never showed up.

because they are too good for a text box.

they use a div and fuckton of JavaScript to implement a full rich text editor and then pretend it's a textbox.

Who’s using terminal emulators and text editors in their browser?

Actually, don’t answer that. I’m afraid of the answer.

>text editors

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.

Wikipedia does. Every site with a CMS. Google docs.

Here to write in the comments you use a simple text editor.

Chrome dev tools can also be used to change the code directly. Quite convenient to have the same dev tool behave and look the same on all the different plattforms.

Also, everything ChromeOS related.

Was that so scary?

Never heard of Jupyter Notebook? And services like AWS also have editors and terminals, just like countless other sites.

If you're a cli jockey and you haven't tried using bash together with Jupyter, you've gotta give it a shot.

Or you can hold shift button while right clicking to force open menu.

My bank bans right click in addition to ctrl v.

In Firefox, with the method proposed by the gp, they shouldn't be able to block it.

This used to break google docs copy/paste - haven't tried for a while though, maybe that's fixed

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