You had many choices of how to share the link without belittling someone else.
Just not allowing the clipboard is a legitimate security measure though. A lot of apps can read that memory space, so itās kind of a security black hole.l
Can we get the same thing for when they hijack the back button to send you to some other promotional bs? I canāt stand that.
Iād prefer a plugin which doxxes the website designer and gives me their home address
the back button is broken on many legitimite sites for other reasons. i dont trust it
links go in a new tab
ā¦until certain links are, for some idiotic reason, also handled through javascript, and donāt work with āopen link in new tabā or middle click. Screw those sites!
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. Iāve resorted to just using the snipit tool to capture tiny screenshots of the text I want, but thatās ofc significantly less ideal than just highlighting text and hitting Ctrl+C.
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/
Itās a really good extension. Has a tendency to break some functionality of websites when itās on, but itās easy to just toggle it on, refresh the page, grab what you need, then toggle it off again.
I just thought of a possible bypass. Maybe a phoneās āscan 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 wouldāve 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 aināt nobody got time for dat. When I actually do want to fully convert it (usually only bother if Iām sending something out to the class), then Iāll 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.
If youāre 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
This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
Itās pretty lame that Mozillaās addons site still doesnāt show source code which is guaranteed to correspond to the binary youāre 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 š (iām not suggesting it is malicious, i just donāt 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 websiteās 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?