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I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content. No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again

I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content. No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else. Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac

xnorswap 8mo ago
You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.
- sheiyei 8mo ago
  In some cases. In others, the application does whatever it wants.
  - UqWBcuFx6NV4r 8mo ago
    And funnily enough, Office for Mac doesn’t allow you to do this, or at least it didn’t used to. I think I may’ve just noticed that it’s started working.
    - mfro 8mo ago
      Doesn’t work for me. The absolute most infuriating thing is that copying text out of OneNote pastes as AN IMAGE. The only way around this is sanitizing the text in a notepad on the host machine itself.
  - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
    > application does whatever it wants Obsidian has a mildly infuriating default of opening previews with ctrl shift v keys instead of pasting with no formatting.
setopt 8mo ago
I somewhat regularly use the almost embarrassing key sequence Ctrl-C Ctrl-L Ctrl-V Ctrl-A Ctrl-X to sanitize text I’ve copied from a browser, using the address field to remove any formatting.
- EE84M3i 8mo ago
  I explicitly stopped this habit so that I don't accidentally do it with sensitive data I don't want to go to my search engine provider's auto complete API.
  - theandrewbailey 8mo ago
    Disabling remote search autocomplete is one of the first things I do when I setup a new browser instance. It's a privacy and security nightmare I don't want.
    - masfuerte 8mo ago
      Same here. And I just noticed yesterday that Firefox had added and enabled a "Suggestions from sponsors" feature. Which I've now disabled, but presumably it's been sending anything I type into the address bar to Mozilla since 2021. I am tired of Mozilla but Chrome is very much worse. ETA: I only noticed yesterday because a "sponsored suggestion" popped up when I was typing, which I've not seen before. So either they actually enabled it recently, or advertisers don't bid on the kinds of things I usually type.
    - iso1631 8mo ago
      ctrl-k is for the search box ctrl-l is for the address box At most I want the address box to do is look up a dns name. Which can still be a risk if I were to hit "enter" with sensitive information which could in some cases get pushed out to my DNS provider (which is me, but then it's possible the address would be pushed out to another resolver, and will also be logged in an unexpected place)
    - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
      > Disabling remote search autocomplete I've always have a suspicion that even with auto complete off, some sort of telemetry or obscure feature is still leaking browser address bar text.
- HugoTea 8mo ago
  I do a similar thing but use the start menu search, Ctrl-C, WIN, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X. You can do it all in one hand and can get really fast, assuming the start menu doesn't lag behind. There's also the downside that it publishes all of your clipboard content to Bing search so maintain vigilance for confidential data...
SoKamil 8mo ago
I always used browser address bar for that. But giving it a second thought, I uploaded the data to Google servers.
- prmoustache 8mo ago
  I have my firefox browser configured to keep using a separate search field and not make search queries in the url bar. It annoys a lot my partner if I let her use my computer to check something but it is frictionless once you unlearn bad habits.
- d3Xt3r 8mo ago
  I use the Run dialog (Win+R) for this.
hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago
Win+r, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, ctrl+x, esc does this without spawning a non ephemeral window
- d3Xt3r 8mo ago
  Unfortunately this has a 260 character limit.
  - hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago
    Interesting and valid point. TIL!

I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content. No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else. Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac

xnorswap 8mo ago

You can Ctrl+shift+v to paste plain text in windows.

sheiyei 8mo ago
In some cases. In others, the application does whatever it wants.
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 8mo ago
  And funnily enough, Office for Mac doesn’t allow you to do this, or at least it didn’t used to. I think I may’ve just noticed that it’s started working.
  - mfro 8mo ago
    Doesn’t work for me. The absolute most infuriating thing is that copying text out of OneNote pastes as AN IMAGE. The only way around this is sanitizing the text in a notepad on the host machine itself.
- 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
  > application does whatever it wants Obsidian has a mildly infuriating default of opening previews with ctrl shift v keys instead of pasting with no formatting.

setopt 8mo ago

I somewhat regularly use the almost embarrassing key sequence Ctrl-C Ctrl-L Ctrl-V Ctrl-A Ctrl-X to sanitize text I’ve copied from a browser, using the address field to remove any formatting.

EE84M3i 8mo ago
I explicitly stopped this habit so that I don't accidentally do it with sensitive data I don't want to go to my search engine provider's auto complete API.
- theandrewbailey 8mo ago
  Disabling remote search autocomplete is one of the first things I do when I setup a new browser instance. It's a privacy and security nightmare I don't want.
  - masfuerte 8mo ago
    Same here. And I just noticed yesterday that Firefox had added and enabled a "Suggestions from sponsors" feature. Which I've now disabled, but presumably it's been sending anything I type into the address bar to Mozilla since 2021. I am tired of Mozilla but Chrome is very much worse. ETA: I only noticed yesterday because a "sponsored suggestion" popped up when I was typing, which I've not seen before. So either they actually enabled it recently, or advertisers don't bid on the kinds of things I usually type.
  - iso1631 8mo ago
    ctrl-k is for the search box ctrl-l is for the address box At most I want the address box to do is look up a dns name. Which can still be a risk if I were to hit "enter" with sensitive information which could in some cases get pushed out to my DNS provider (which is me, but then it's possible the address would be pushed out to another resolver, and will also be logged in an unexpected place)
  - 8cvor6j844qw_d6 8mo ago
    > Disabling remote search autocomplete I've always have a suspicion that even with auto complete off, some sort of telemetry or obscure feature is still leaking browser address bar text.
HugoTea 8mo ago
I do a similar thing but use the start menu search, Ctrl-C, WIN, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X. You can do it all in one hand and can get really fast, assuming the start menu doesn't lag behind. There's also the downside that it publishes all of your clipboard content to Bing search so maintain vigilance for confidential data...

SoKamil 8mo ago

I always used browser address bar for that. But giving it a second thought, I uploaded the data to Google servers.

prmoustache 8mo ago
I have my firefox browser configured to keep using a separate search field and not make search queries in the url bar. It annoys a lot my partner if I let her use my computer to check something but it is frictionless once you unlearn bad habits.
d3Xt3r 8mo ago
I use the Run dialog (Win+R) for this.

hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago

Win+r, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, ctrl+x, esc does this without spawning a non ephemeral window

d3Xt3r 8mo ago
Unfortunately this has a 260 character limit.
- hsbauauvhabzb 8mo ago
  Interesting and valid point. TIL!