[frou_dh]

I guess there's room for an attack of irritation where a user with something meaningful on their clipboard unwittingly triggers having it overwritten by some nonsense. (Most clipboards effectively being a single mutable item without history or stack/queue behaviour).

[ascagnel_]

Tynt basically did this exact thing as a business model[0].

[0] http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks

[scrollaway]

There's easier ways to irritate your users.

Most websites irritate their users, actually.

[frou_dh]

Speaking of clipboard shenanigans. Could be imagining it, but I seem to remember a while ago there being something certain websites were doing where if you selected and copied text from them, the text that ended up on your clipboard would have a synthesized paragraph about copyright/attribution appended to it.

[scrollaway]

Yeah, occured to me reading that comment. Lyrics websites used to do it a lot (probably still do). I believe they use invisible text.

[jsjohnst]

Yeah, many tech news sites used to do this. I'm not positive, but I think TechCrunch did at one point, I could be wrong though. Absolutely hate it personally!

[copperx]

iBooks does exactly that; it irritates me to no end. I know why they do it, but still.