A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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Does this work with any text on page (vs just inputs)?
Currently dealing with several digital textbooks - that I fucking purchased - from Elsevier that disable copy functions, which makes pulling chunks of text from a page to take notes a pain in the ass. I've resorted to just using the snipit tool to capture tiny screenshots of the text I want, but that's ofc significantly less ideal than just highlighting text and hitting Ctrl+C.
ShareX has an OCR feature. It's a tool for taking screenshots and recordings, with support for configurable workflows which can do all sorts, including extract text from the snipped area and copy it to the clipboard.
If you're using Windows, there is a utility included in PowerToys that you might find useful to get the text from those screenshots: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/text-extractor
Okay that actually sounds pretty amazing... but I can't get it to work. Win+shift+T seems to just cycle through the icons pinned in my taskbar. I'll do some googling to see if I can figure out why that is, but if you know a quick fix, then yes please!!
I just thought of a possible bypass. Maybe a phone’s “scan document” function can help with that? Provided that the text is clear, you may be able to scan a webpage and save it as a scanned document. Then open the doc on your phone (or other device), and you should be able to highlight and copy the scanned text.
Okay, maybe not. I tested it with this very page and although the copied text got the gist, I still would’ve had to go back and edit things. But eh, YMMV. It could be a valid work-around for somebody, just with different text or using a different device.
Usually I just leave them as little image blocks of text cuz ain't nobody got time for dat. When I actually do want to fully convert it (usually only bother if I'm sending something out to the class), then I'll save the whole doc as a PDF and then run it through an optical character recognition service like this one. There are ways, they just suck when a feature like copy exists.
Screenshot, paste to GPT and ask it to parse to text.
There's a special place in hell for whoever started that blocking paste shit, right next to the popup ad guy.
Also, does anyone know of an Android Xposed/Magisk Module that does the same thing?
There’s a special place in hell for whoever started that blocking paste shit, right next to the popup ad guy.
...and the guy that came up with the HTML tag.
Didn’t he write that as a joke after they went out drinking one night early in Netscape’s development?
Not too many drunk pranks get codified for years in standards documentation!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Montulli
There's your perpetrator. He claims he didn't write the code but it was his idea. Go get him!
Now give me a "Don't Fuck With Back" extension.
I'm guessing it's all from the same ad network but I've noticed an uptick in the number of sites hijacking the back button to show more ads. Even the Associated Press site has been doing it and it drives me crazy.
Some banks don’t allow pasting passwords, which is insane
California DMV requires a bank routing and account number instead of a credit card, but doesn't allow you to copy and paste it from your bank website. You have to type out the 20+ digits and if you get any of them wrong a cop pulls you over and potentially murders you.
Sounds like freedumb
I had used a website that changed the max length of passwords, but ignored, that existing ones might already have been longer.... I overcame the client side validation, but the server side validated it, too...
Good that the backend validated it, but why in god's name would you ever lower the maximum password length?!?
I like addons that get straight to the point with their names
I made a website to test your typing speed and I felt dirty disabling pasting, but that feels like an actual good use-case.
Just not allowing the clipboard is a legitimate security measure though. A lot of apps can read that memory space, so it's kind of a security black hole.l
Can I get one that does the same with autofill
You can disable autofill in the settings.
I'm talking about websites that won't let you use autofill. Why do I have to type in my email address when I have it saved in my autofill
