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OMFG what asshole came up with the idea of blocking paste for fields? Whoever you are, get FUCKED
“bUt ItS a SeCuRiTy RiSk.” Yeah maybe when most people were keeping their passwords in a spreadsheet. However now that they are all encrypted in password management programs its a vulnerability. If I can’t generate a 40+ char password for your site then I will not be using your site if I can help it.
I don’t even think that’s what they were trying to stop, I think they just believe people making bots would only paste.
So put a timeout on too many failed logins instead.
I’m not defending the practice lmao
you are correct that most people dont keep their passwords in spreadsheets. a lot of people prefer a plaintext file on their desktop, or a note in their phones!
Lifehack: if you use the same password everywhere you don’t have to note anything down.
bonus: make it something easy to remember, like your year of birth
For extra security change an o to a 0, hackers will never be able to break into your account if you do so.
😭
thanks grandpa, helps a lot
you should do tech support for a living ❤️
Financial Times does that
Probably the same ones that block “copy” for when you want to select text.
Those same people think that colorblind people don’t exist and there’s no accessibility reason to select text. 😡
Or even better: the ones that add bullshit like “–Copied from shitheads.xyz” to all copied text
Oh, haven’t seen that one yet. Another irritation to look forward to.
In mst cases it’s a simple css property.
Btw, can webdevs please stop reimplementing scroll via js? Always a slow and buggy mess.
Does this work with any text on page (vs just inputs)?
Currently dealing with several digital textbooks - that I fucking purchased - from Elsevier that disable copy functions, which makes pulling chunks of text from a page to take notes a pain in the ass. I’ve resorted to just using the snipit tool to capture tiny screenshots of the text I want, but that’s ofc significantly less ideal than just highlighting text and hitting Ctrl+C.
Screenshot, paste to GPT and ask it to parse to text.
If you’re using Windows, there is a utility included in PowerToys that you might find useful to get the text from those screenshots: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-extractor
Okay that actually sounds pretty amazing… but I can’t get it to work. Win+shift+T seems to just cycle through the icons pinned in my taskbar. I’ll do some googling to see if I can figure out why that is, but if you know a quick fix, then yes please!!
There is a Firefox extension called Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy that works great for a lot sites that block you from being able to copy.
Link for the lazy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click/
It’s a really good extension. Has a tendency to break some functionality of websites when it’s on, but it’s easy to just toggle it on, refresh the page, grab what you need, then toggle it off again.
That sounds right up my alley because another pet peeve of mine is when they block me from opening an image in a new tab via the right click menu. My eyes aren’t what they used to be and I need to ZOOM sometimes.
I just thought of a possible bypass. Maybe a phone’s “scan document” function can help with that? Provided that the text is clear, you may be able to scan a webpage and save it as a scanned document. Then open the doc on your phone (or other device), and you should be able to highlight and copy the scanned text.
Okay, maybe not. I tested it with this very page and although the copied text got the gist, I still would’ve had to go back and edit things. But eh, YMMV. It could be a valid work-around for somebody, just with different text or using a different device.
Usually I just leave them as little image blocks of text cuz ain’t nobody got time for dat. When I actually do want to fully convert it (usually only bother if I’m sending something out to the class), then I’ll save the whole doc as a PDF and then run it through an optical character recognition service like this one. There are ways, they just suck when a feature like copy exists.
I find that pressing Ctrl+C while highlighting the text (still holding left click) works, at least with Cengage
ShareX has an OCR feature. It’s a tool for taking screenshots and recordings, with support for configurable workflows which can do all sorts, including extract text from the snipped area and copy it to the clipboard.
Now give me a “Don’t Fuck With Back” extension.
I’m guessing it’s all from the same ad network but I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of sites hijacking the back button to show more ads. Even the Associated Press site has been doing it and it drives me crazy.
Yessss I nees this even more than don’t fuck with paste!
Bigger question is, why do browsers have this feature in the first place?
Does it have any use? Like at all?
Some sites think this will preserve their copyright or like to add some ads that whatever you copied came from site whatever.com
been using it for years :)
Can confirm. Use this one myself. Because of course my bank considers pasting into the password field to be a security risk.
Can I get one that does the same with autofill
You can disable autofill in the settings.
I’m talking about websites that won’t let you use autofill. Why do I have to type in my email address when I have it saved in my autofill
I like addons that get straight to the point with their names
I made a website to test your typing speed and I felt dirty disabling pasting, but that feels like an actual good use-case.
why wouldn’t you let people cheat? What’s the worst case outcome?
a lot of people mistyping their passwords, and then not knowing their password, I assume
Why would people paste their password into a typing speed tester?
- You can change that setting in your about:config by setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false.
- This sadly prevents pasting (T)OTPs for websites that choose to have 6 separate input fields. You have to enter these codes manually.
Disabling clipboardevents entirely disables the clipboard API, meaning that single-click copy operations won’t work.
Maybe you’re fine with that, but it’s worth noting.
pasting (T)OTPs for websites that choose to have 6 separate input fields
Possibly a job for “insert text by typing” in a program like Keyboard Maestro on macOS.
Edit: baller app, it is:
Do you know if this add-on does pretty much the same thing and with that will also have the regression regarding (T)OTP input fields?
I have a partial answer. The add-on has different modes for different degrees of bypassing. I’m sure the complete bypass would break it, but not sure about intermediate options.
I can confirm that it has not appeared to affect the functionality of those sites for me. Although… There are some sites with multiple fields that don’t work and some that do, I’ve just assumed that the sites which don’t work were down to poor code.
why the hell do websites even have those 6 separate input fields? you can just have one and style it differently
Because some product teams are cunts, and some products are just plain shit.
Some banks don’t allow pasting passwords, which is insane
California DMV requires a bank routing and account number instead of a credit card, but doesn’t allow you to copy and paste it from your bank website. You have to type out the 20+ digits and if you get any of them wrong a cop pulls you over and potentially murders you.
I’ve never understood the rationale for this. You want users to type in all the digits themselves? I’d rather someone copy and paste it if I were going for accuracy.
Sounds like freedumb
Whats the JS
I had used a website that changed the max length of passwords, but ignored, that existing ones might already have been longer… I overcame the client side validation, but the server side validated it, too…
Good that the backend validated it, but why in god’s name would you ever lower the maximum password length?!?
100% required plugin for the modern web. :(
There’s a special place in hell for whoever started that blocking paste shit, right next to the popup ad guy.
Also, does anyone know of an Android Xposed/Magisk Module that does the same thing?
The addon is available for Firefox on Android
Yea, but that’s not system wide so apps and stuff that route you to say a webpage for login with the internal browser will still fuck with copy and paste
You can turn off the “web-view”, everything should open in the browser app instead
There’s a special place in hell for whoever started that blocking paste shit, right next to the popup ad guy.
…and the guy that came up with the <blink> HTML tag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Montulli
There’s your perpetrator. He claims he didn’t write the code but it was his idea. Go get him!
Didn’t he write that as a joke after they went out drinking one night early in Netscape’s development?
Not too many drunk pranks get codified for years in standards documentation!
