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Youā€™re in microblogmemes not usefulfirefoxextensions

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28 points

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

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Now thereā€™s an idea for a community!

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Your are both right and I appreciate both of you

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I donā€™t.

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šŸ¤œ šŸ¤›

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:3c

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

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šŸ˜¢

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Whereā€™s the fun in that?

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Just not allowing the clipboard is a legitimate security measure though. A lot of apps can read that memory space, so itā€™s kind of a security black hole.l

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How do you input your long unique passwords?

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I can think of two ways: either using a password manager with a browser extension, or using the browserā€™s built-in one.

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An extension in a browser you trust or ummmā€¦ Painstakingly.

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Can we get the same thing for when they hijack the back button to send you to some other promotional bs? I canā€™t stand that.

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

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Looks it might not play nice with some webpages, but Iā€™ll try it out. Thanks!

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Iā€™d prefer a plugin which doxxes the website designer and gives me their home address

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thatā€™s a bit brash.

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Your back button my choice āŒ

Your address my choice āœ…

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

links go in a new tab

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ā€¦until certain links are, for some idiotic reason, also handled through javascript, and donā€™t work with ā€œopen link in new tabā€ or middle click. Screw those sites!

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Oh fuck you JavaScript-link-handling.

Middle clicks link

Opens new blank tabā€¦

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5 points

Web 2.0 was a mistake.

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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. Iā€™ve resorted to just using the snipit tool to capture tiny screenshots of the text I want, but thatā€™s ofc significantly less ideal than just highlighting text and hitting Ctrl+C.

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Screenshot, paste to GPT and ask it to parse to text.

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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.

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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 arenā€™t what they used to be and I need to ZOOM sometimes.

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Link for the lazy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/absolute-enable-right-click/

Itā€™s a really good extension. Has a tendency to break some functionality of websites when itā€™s on, but itā€™s easy to just toggle it on, refresh the page, grab what you need, then toggle it off again.

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I just thought of a possible bypass. Maybe a phoneā€™s ā€œscan documentā€ 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 wouldā€™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.

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Usually I just leave them as little image blocks of text cuz ainā€™t nobody got time for dat. When I actually do want to fully convert it (usually only bother if Iā€™m sending something out to the class), then Iā€™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.

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ShareX has an OCR feature. Itā€™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.

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I find that pressing Ctrl+C while highlighting the text (still holding left click) works, at least with Cengage

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If youā€™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

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Okay that actually sounds pretty amazingā€¦ but I canā€™t get it to work. Win+shift+T seems to just cycle through the icons pinned in my taskbar. Iā€™ll do some googling to see if I can figure out why that is, but if you know a quick fix, then yes please!!

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This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.

Itā€™s pretty lame that Mozillaā€™s addons site still doesnā€™t show source code which is guaranteed to correspond to the binary youā€™re installing.

Anyway, I went and read the source on github (which probably corresponds to the extension one can install) and while this part seems very straightforward this other part exceeds my understanding šŸ˜‚ (iā€™m not suggesting it is malicious, i just donā€™t understand everything it is doing there or why it is necessary).

What I was really looking at the source for was to see if they were simulating keystrokes (and inserting plausible delays between them) to defeat a more determined anti-pasting adversary, or if they were simply suppressing the hostile websiteā€™s onPaste handler so that pastes can happen as normal. And: they are doing the latter.

I wonder if any paste-blocking websites detect and defeat this extension yet?

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