We need libre paste, people.

You’re in microblogmemes not usefulfirefoxextensions

Your are both right and I appreciate both of you

The real extensions were the ones we shared in the comments section

Now there’s an idea for a community!

You had many choices of how to share the link without belittling someone else.

Where’s the fun in that?

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.

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.

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.

Probably the same ones that block “copy” for when you want 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.

Those same people think that colorblind people don’t exist and there’s no accessibility reason to select text. 😡

Financial Times does that

I ran into this just the other day, a site wouldn’t let me paste my password into the “confirm password” field when signing up. Had to resort to editing the HTML properties because there’s no way I’m manually typing in my long-ass randomly generated password.

Does your password manager not support auto type?

I’ve seen password managers fail to detect password fields because the frontend devs thought whatever stupid piece of React crap they vomited from their keyboards was better than using standard html fields for their intended purpose. It’s not very common, but it happens. Credit card fields are also a big mess for the same reason. Half the time bitwarden’s best guess at auto filling those results in some absolute soup that makes no sense.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to send my warmest, most sincerest fuck yous to all the UX designers who think it’s a good idea to fuck with navigation. Don’t prevent me from opening shit in a new tab. Don’t just scroll the page up to the previous h1 when I try to go back. Who the hell do you think you are?

I’m a developer that doesn’t fuck with the fields! ✨ I can’t stand JavaScript-based validation either, I use HTML attributes for basic pre-submit validation then do the actual validation on the backend.

I can’t stand the fucked up forms either.

Auto type doesn’t rely on password fields classification. Auto fill does

In KeypassXC you click on the field where you want the password to be entered, then click into the password manager and do auto type.
KeypassXC will then minimise and type the password for you.

I do this a lot when replacing 20+ character passwords in remote desktop sessions.

It does, but (as far as I know) not for putting a newly generated password into a signup field.

Even with CTRL+V? 99% of the time when I encounter this they only block right click, but CTRL+V will work for…reasons

Yep, even Ctrl+V didn’t work. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering it’s a government site (the signup for federal student aid).

On macOS it’s the opposite. Seems ⌘+V is blocked but Safari’s context menu apparently ignores JavaScript overriding it.

Can we get the same thing for when they hijack the back button to send you to some other promotional bs? I can’t stand that.

I’d prefer a plugin which doxxes the website designer and gives me their home address

Your back button my choice ❌

Your address my choice ✅

that’s a bit brash.

Looks it might not play nice with some webpages, but I’ll try it out. Thanks!

the back button is broken on many legitimite sites for other reasons. i dont trust it

links go in a new tab

…until certain links are, for some idiotic reason, also handled through javascript, and don’t work with “open link in new tab” or middle click. Screw those sites!

Web 2.0 was a mistake.

Oh fuck you JavaScript-link-handling.

Middle clicks link

Opens new blank tab…

The problems of yesterday will become the problems of tomorrow. xd

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.

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.

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.

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:

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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