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> My own extension StopTheMadness stops web sites from disabling your browser's built-in paste and autofill features, a kind of madness commonly implemented by

by RMPR 3y ago

> My own extension StopTheMadness stops web sites from disabling your browser's built-in paste and autofill features, a kind of madness commonly implemented by sites that have a misguided, ignorant notion about what makes a login form "secure" Now, this is an extension I didn't know I needed. I'm baffled that there are some things without which the web is unusable for me. Looking at my extension list, on Firefox I have: - ClearURLs - Clickbait remover for YouTube - Cookie Autodelete - Firefox Multi-account container - I don't care about cookies (not updated since bought by Avast) - Privacy badger - Tampermonkey - Tridactyl - uBlock Origin I feel like I'm pretty conservative with the add-ons that I install, yet I can't comfortably browse the web if I'm missing one of them. When did everything go so wrong?

kentrf 3y ago
Try Consent-O-Matic instead of IDCAC. It is possible to reject consent instead of blindly accepting them with IDCAC... and also the Avast thing
- deleted 3y ago
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- ibejoeb 3y ago
  I think the point of these is that GDPR requires an affirmative action, i.e., there is no need to decline, so just get the shitty overlays out of the way. Consent-O-Matic submits those forms on your behalf. I don't want that. I'd rather not participate at all.
mostlysimilar 3y ago
Here's the non-enshittified version of "I don't care about cookies": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar... Yes, the web is hostile. It's frankly incredible we're still allowed the power to control our user agents like we do. If the web was built today it would be a locked down nightmare controlled 100% by corporate interests.
- galangalalgol 3y ago
  Wasm seems to have the power to make that nightmare a reality, but if they can just force you to use native apps, then maybe they don't want wasm. The web itself is what they are looking to kill.
- SamPatt 3y ago
  You say corporate nightmare but give the example of cookies, and the need to accept or reject those are a result of government regulations.
  - mostlysimilar 3y ago
    A fair point, but the government regulation was a response to corporate abuses. There's a discussion to be had about the efficacy of this particular regulation, but zero regulation and letting corporations run free is not a better solution. In an ideal world governments are accountable to a well-educated populace and enact the will of the people to rein in the excesses of the greedy and powerful. Of course that is not how it currently works, but that is the ideal to strive for.
    - pcunite 3y ago
      GOVT vs CORP is the same as left vs right. They are the same. Two wings on the same bird. You are being played.
      - 111111IIIIIII 3y ago
        This is essentially the correct explanation. Karl Marx showed 150 years ago that a state under capitalism is a capitalist state and therefore predominated by the interests of capital itself, an observation that has never been refuted.
        redeeman 3y ago
        the capital of its inhabitants.
eterm 3y ago
Even without this extension, generally holding shift when right-clicking gets around right-click blockers.
- mmis1000 3y ago
  The caveat of this is, this don't workaround sites that just declares text unselectable. The css property 'user-select' exists to allow developer stop user from select something like button text by accident. But end up abused so heavily. And you can neither disable all of them because you don't know if they use it in good faith.
hatsunearu 3y ago
It's kind of upsetting finding out about stuff like this, that you don't know it could exist. Adblock is interesting because for adblock to work, you need some engineer hours working to find a good filter to delete ads on websites that don't have active countermeasures, and potentially in websites all over the world in languages as well (I'm bilingual, and I see that ublock origin still works in non-english websites). Now if you throw in websites with active adblock countermeasures, it seems the proposition that a free, mostly self-governed extension all has that figured out just seems impossible, but it seems to work quite well (albeit with a few notable blocking failures, especially at Facebook which has extremely aggressive anti-adblock features)
hatsunearu 3y ago
Wow, I had ClearURLs installed forever ago and I just totally forgot about it. I often have to manually delete tracking elements that make my URLs long and nasty, but I just realized that only happens when I copy a link that I haven't visited yet. ClearURL has been on my back this whole time!
mthoms 3y ago
StopTheMadness is a godsend (but I recommend it only to technical users). The developer is also very responsive. Recommended.
BeefWellington 3y ago
You don't strictly need an addon for this, with a caveat. You can disable this behaviour by setting `dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled` to False; However this also disables copy functionality on sites.
93po 3y ago
To save someone else the time: StopTheMadness requires you to install OS-level software and costs $12

by RMPR 3y ago

kentrf 3y ago

Try Consent-O-Matic instead of IDCAC. It is possible to reject consent instead of blindly accepting them with IDCAC... and also the Avast thing

deleted 3y ago
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ibejoeb 3y ago
I think the point of these is that GDPR requires an affirmative action, i.e., there is no need to decline, so just get the shitty overlays out of the way. Consent-O-Matic submits those forms on your behalf. I don't want that. I'd rather not participate at all.

mostlysimilar 3y ago

Here's the non-enshittified version of "I don't care about cookies": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar... Yes, the web is hostile. It's frankly incredible we're still allowed the power to control our user agents like we do. If the web was built today it would be a locked down nightmare controlled 100% by corporate interests.

galangalalgol 3y ago
Wasm seems to have the power to make that nightmare a reality, but if they can just force you to use native apps, then maybe they don't want wasm. The web itself is what they are looking to kill.
SamPatt 3y ago
You say corporate nightmare but give the example of cookies, and the need to accept or reject those are a result of government regulations.
- mostlysimilar 3y ago
  A fair point, but the government regulation was a response to corporate abuses. There's a discussion to be had about the efficacy of this particular regulation, but zero regulation and letting corporations run free is not a better solution. In an ideal world governments are accountable to a well-educated populace and enact the will of the people to rein in the excesses of the greedy and powerful. Of course that is not how it currently works, but that is the ideal to strive for.
  - pcunite 3y ago
    GOVT vs CORP is the same as left vs right. They are the same. Two wings on the same bird. You are being played.
    - 111111IIIIIII 3y ago
      This is essentially the correct explanation. Karl Marx showed 150 years ago that a state under capitalism is a capitalist state and therefore predominated by the interests of capital itself, an observation that has never been refuted.
      - redeeman 3y ago
        the capital of its inhabitants.

eterm 3y ago

Even without this extension, generally holding shift when right-clicking gets around right-click blockers.

mmis1000 3y ago
The caveat of this is, this don't workaround sites that just declares text unselectable. The css property 'user-select' exists to allow developer stop user from select something like button text by accident. But end up abused so heavily. And you can neither disable all of them because you don't know if they use it in good faith.

hatsunearu 3y ago

It's kind of upsetting finding out about stuff like this, that you don't know it could exist. Adblock is interesting because for adblock to work, you need some engineer hours working to find a good filter to delete ads on websites that don't have active countermeasures, and potentially in websites all over the world in languages as well (I'm bilingual, and I see that ublock origin still works in non-english websites). Now if you throw in websites with active adblock countermeasures, it seems the proposition that a free, mostly self-governed extension all has that figured out just seems impossible, but it seems to work quite well (albeit with a few notable blocking failures, especially at Facebook which has extremely aggressive anti-adblock features)

hatsunearu 3y ago

Wow, I had ClearURLs installed forever ago and I just totally forgot about it. I often have to manually delete tracking elements that make my URLs long and nasty, but I just realized that only happens when I copy a link that I haven't visited yet. ClearURL has been on my back this whole time!

mthoms 3y ago

StopTheMadness is a godsend (but I recommend it only to technical users). The developer is also very responsive. Recommended.

BeefWellington 3y ago

You don't strictly need an addon for this, with a caveat. You can disable this behaviour by setting `dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled` to False; However this also disables copy functionality on sites.

93po 3y ago

To save someone else the time: StopTheMadness requires you to install OS-level software and costs $12