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this is getting to be a real bugbear of mine, and from what i understand it's becoming more common.
a few of you might have heard of tynt, a site that offers clipboard-hijacking services. with their API on your site, users that copy your content will either have the content they copy altered or a link to the website they sourced the information from will be placed at the end.
i object on a fundamental level to allowing anyone but myself access over my clipboard. it's a personal aspect of the computer and not one i plan on letting marketers into.
previously, blocking clipboard hijacking was easy because tynt were the only ones trying it, so setting up a hosts redirect for tcr.tynt.com killed it all without issue. now, however, i see that other sites are hosting their own imitations, which do much the same thing.
here's a javascript applet from one such site: http://www.lyricsmania.com/copy.js
you can test it out yourself by looking at any page of theirs: http://www.lyricsmania.com/watershed_lyrics_mark_hollis.html and copying any of the lyrics from there. they will add a link to their own site and a spam link beneath it.
is it possible to instruct chrome to block all scripts of this specific type? is there a way to blanket deny pamphleteers access to my clipboard? i'd love to hear what anyone thinks. i could use noscript, but unless i'm mistaken it doesn't contain any intelligent code to recognise javascript that's trying to hijack my clipboard, so it's not particularly useful here.
seagull
Posted 2014-02-07T17:42:11.383
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techie007, this looks very similar to my query. thanks! my search didn't use the right terms to pick this question up so i appreciate it. – seagull – 2014-02-07T17:57:47.900
@seagull Might I also suggest you try http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ as the hosts file there is updated quite regularly and seems to block most hijacking sites such as Tynt.
– DanteTheEgregore – 2014-02-07T18:43:29.250