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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I'm curious about; I'm used to copying code snippets or codes from websites by clicking a button (presumably through some browser API?), but am just now realizing that this in itself has security implications.

Using noscript or some such JS blocker would prevent this but break a lot of other things in the process. That's why I'm wondering why the API isn't locked down via some user prompt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

In Firefox, you can disable the clipboard events. I've done this for the rare case of me copy+pasting a password and forgetting to clear the clipboard after.

On Android, I've noticed that it's possible for apps to read from the clipboard, to read OTP tokens for example. Since I noticed that a while back, I've always been wary of the clipboard on any device I've used.