3 ms·

This hijacking “feature” that’s been a part of news and other proprietary content sites for more than a decade now: https://moz.com/ugc/copymagicpaste-a-script

by danso 7y ago

This hijacking “feature” that’s been a part of news and other proprietary content sites for more than a decade now: https://moz.com/ugc/copymagicpaste-a-script-and-easytouseguide-to-customize-the-copyevent-on-your-website https://moz.com/ugc/copymagicpaste-a-script-and-easytousegui... Anecdotally speaking, I’ve seen it a lot less these days; mostly, I see it when copy-pasting from my Kindle app. I’ve rarely ever seen it for a site this general-purpose (and trivial) though

saagarjha 7y ago
> You can set up a minimum length, so not every word copied will be modified by the following, preventing a negative user experience when using your site. You know what would prevent a negative user experience? Not adding things to my clipboard that I don't want. (Thankfully, that site didn't seem to.)
smacktoward 7y ago
It’s been around for so long a clipboard-jacking-as-a-service company, Tynt (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tynt https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tynt), launched, lived and exited. If telling people not to do this was going to be enough to solve the problem, we wouldn’t still be talking about it. The browser vendors really need to shut it off once and for all.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  And they have 100-250 employees?!
  - adtac 7y ago
    I'm sure most of it was just keeping wit the latest JS standard
  - gruez 7y ago
    Most of them are probably in sales.
- sigotirandolas 7y ago
  For the lazy but curious, here's a random Wayback Machine link to their former homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20140207123808/https://tynt.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20140207123808/https://tynt.com/