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Option to disable Clipboard API?

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#2,622 opened on Dec 2, 2023

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Description

Description

Disable (all) features from the "Clipboard API and events" spec

Who's implementing?

  • I'm willing to implement this feature myself

The problem

This spec is detrimental to user experience if abused. And it it being abused. What do i mean by that? Some sites allow you to copy but add their extra crap which you see when you paste it. An example from this site. If i copy the text:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out myCA.key 2048

Pasting that text results in:

openssl genrsa -des3 -out myCA.key 2048
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In my opinion this is a gross misuse of features. I've seen quite a few sites already that modify the clipboard to add their own bs to is that you didn't select as copy command.

Possible solutions

Option to disable it.

Alternatives

none

Additional context

none

Contributor guide

Research direction
Investigate Chromium's Clipboard API implementation in content/browser/clipboard and renderer, then add a command line flag or preference to disable the Clipboard API.
Tech stack
cpppython
Domain
securityapi
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
GitC++
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40