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Re:Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without ... by kevincox on Saturday August 27, 2022 @09:58AM (#32619090)
Annoyingly the GitHub comment box doesn't. Incredibly frustrating to copy someones name from the GitHub webpage and paste it and it pastes as a markdown link which doesn't trigger a mention.
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Re:Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without ... by lupire on Saturday August 27, 2022 @09:06PM (#32624772)
Aside from GitHub doing something dumb here, Paste without formatting belongs as a browser or OS feature, not per-website code.
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