Comment by SomeUserName432

18 hours ago

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

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setopt  18 hours 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  17 hours 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.

  • BuildTheRobots  7 hours ago

    I've been using Win+R to paste it in the windows run box.

    Amazingly still works on Win 11 and still seems to keep it local (bypassing the windows search), so I'm pleased to report consistent results for 30 ish years.

    Of course, now I've mentioned it out loud, it'll be the next thing to go...

    I don't know if it's just me being old and grumpy, but everything windows 8 and later (server 2003) seems like half-baked, unfinished enshittification. Trying to do something even vaguely "advanced" to a network adapter puts me back in windows 95 land along with the run box. The "manage" pane with device & disk manager and logs is from a totally bygone era yet it seems to still be the only way of getting that information. The worst bit is, I'm not complaining. All the bits that look and feel like they've been forgotten since Windows 2000 are the easiest, least infuriating bits of the system I interact with.

  • HugoTea  17 hours 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...

xnorswap  18 hours ago

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

  • sheiyei  18 hours ago

    In some cases. In others, the application does whatever it wants.

    • UqWBcuFx6NV4r  18 hours 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.

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    • 8cvor6j844qw_d6  10 hours 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.

SoKamil  16 hours ago

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

  • prmoustache  14 hours 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.