Microblog Memes
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.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
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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.
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.
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
In mst cases it's a simple css property.
Btw, can webdevs please stop reimplementing scroll via js? Always a slow and buggy mess.
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 ✅
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.
- 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.
Don't fuck with copy too, my schools e-textbook thing won't let you copy text when quoting it for an essay.
Edit: I appreciate the help but this is on a school laptop, we can't install anything nor open inspect element. Also I already found a workaround by cntrl+c-ing before I lift the left click and it goes to highlight mode.
Cengage? McGraw?
Both have that problem in my classes so I went hard into the open access stuff for my students.
I always just find a pdf to use even if I had to pay for the service. One time the pictures they provided (tables) were so difficult to read that I tracked down the original source material and sent copies to the professor and the rest of the class.
Now that is an everyday hero in action.
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?
100% required plugin for the modern web. :(
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I like addons that get straight to the point with their names
This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.
It's pretty lame that Mozilla's addons site still doesn't show source code which is guaranteed to correspond to the binary you'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 😂 (i'm not suggesting it is malicious, i just don'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 website'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?
Bigger question is, why do browsers have this feature in the first place?
Does it have any use? Like at all?
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...