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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by nothrowaway on Sunday June 26, 2016 @03:53AM (#11979835)
If it helps anyone, this Chrome extension has worked every time I've tried it:

https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste

(I usually keep it disabled, but enable it when I'm about to use a site that has paste disabled on any fields.)

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by rsync on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:46AM (#11981004)
"If it helps anyone, this Chrome extension has worked every time I've tried it: https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste"

Shouldn't chrome itself be a "don't fuck with paste" tool ?

As the world moves to the browser as the OS (essentially) it's imperative that the browser respect end user wishes and behave as a sentry against malicious websites and malicious website behavior.

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by delecti on Monday June 27, 2016 @10:41AM (#11986431)
Most of the time websites disable paste by registering "onPaste" events. How do you allow websites to keep doing that when necessary, but not allow the websites that break the paste?
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by ketralnis on Monday June 27, 2016 @07:28PM (#11990341)
> when necessary

When would I ever want a website to know the difference between me pasting and me typing some text?

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by okletsgoyayok on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @08:45AM (#11993281)
Kudos +3

Edit: Does anyone else feel... increasingly... trapped?

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by fakemeatsubs on Sunday June 26, 2016 @04:29AM (#11979897)
Awesome, is there a similar one for selecting text and copying?
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by nothrowaway on Sunday June 26, 2016 @06:26AM (#11980171)
Very possibly, but I don't know of one to recommend, sorry.

(Temporarily disabling JavaScript is sometimes an option.)

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