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Help! Sites have access to my clipboard!

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Like any privacy-conscious person, I do not want websites gaining access to my clipboard. I thought I had taken the necessary precautions, by setting the following preferences:

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled => FALSE

clipboard.plainTextOnly => TRUE

Today, however, while writing in an online text box, I hit Ctrl+V and was horrified to see a very personal image inserted into the text box! (The image just happened to be in the clipboard.)

What is going on here? How could this possibly happen? Can sites still access my clipboard?

Like any privacy-conscious person, I do ''not'' want websites gaining access to my clipboard. I thought I had taken the necessary precautions, by setting the following preferences: dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled => FALSE clipboard.plainTextOnly => TRUE Today, however, while writing in an online text box, I hit Ctrl+V and was horrified to see a very personal image inserted into the text box! (The image just happened to be in the clipboard.) What is going on here? How could this possibly happen? Can sites still access my clipboard?

Modified by MartyJames