Disabling copy paste on website credit card fields…

1. Ugh. Anti-pattern. Does the X middle-click thing work? That uses a different mechanism than copy-paste and may just be viewed by the input as keystrokes.

   Of course if you’re running Windows or Mac you don’t have that feature…

   1. I tried clicking with the middle finger. That didn’t work but it was mildly satisfying.

   2. You clearly lack sufficient buttons on your mouse.

2. I especially love it when they do it to password fields – I’m looking at you H&R Block…

3. How do they actually do this?

   1. $(document).ready(function(){
      $(‘#txtInput’).bind(“paste”,function(e) {
      e.preventDefault();
      });
      });

   2. Which is to say, easily overridable at the client – so it won’t even prevent the people they want to or think they want to stop.

   3. Grease Monkey script, please, to override that `preventDefault` implementation? Could it be done? (I’m not a Javascript guy)

   4. I don’t greasemonkey. maybe this still works? http://superuser.com/questions/23027/greasemonkey-script-or-firefox-extension-to-stop-sites-from-disabling-copy-pas

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