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… that they blocked the author's extension is like icing on this WTF cake. This is absolutely a bug, and almost certainly a security bug. If you consider paste
by deathanatos 3y ago
… that they blocked the author's extension is like icing on this WTF cake.
This is absolutely a bug, and almost certainly a security bug. If you consider pastejacking the clipboard within the threat model that you want to account for, selection-jacking like this is absolutely within it, as it's a superset in terms of bad behavior.
(… but browsers have long maligned the primary selection on Linux. Neither Firefox nor Chrome have behaved properly for a long time, so it's not really surprising that they don't wanna when it comes to this bug. The primary selection is incredibly useful, but unique to Linux and even there, poorly understood amongst its userbase due to being a bit tricky to discover.)
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- JellyBeanThief 3y agoOh man. All I've used Linux on was a ThinkPad, and so I quickly discovered that MMB pasted. But I assumed it was just pasting from the clipboard. This explains so many times when what I Ctrl-C'd and what I MMB'd weren't the same and I naively chalked it up to mistyping or a bug in some software or anything else.
- kibwen 3y ago> browsers have long maligned the primary selection Not just browsers, users also rightfully malign the primary selection. I highlight text for all sorts of reasons (including because I already have something that I want to paste).
- idbehold 3y agoTake this logic one step up: it's X11 which is allowing applications to set the middle click buffer. X11 should only be allowing that to be set from direct user-interaction as any application could be nefariously setting it.