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by Jermaine_Jabi 1933 days ago
Does anyone have an example in the wild of a news site that injects something in to the clipboard on copy?
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The Financial Times adds this when you copy some text from a story: "Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/3b5bc5cc-ce88-44c5-91c9-20d1034e1..."
I haven't seen it happen in a long time, but I've also blocked most of the offenders in my hosts file.