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

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.

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EE84M3i 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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theandrewbailey 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Disabling remote search autocomplete is one of the first things I do when I setup a new browser instance. It's a privacy and security nightmare I don't want.

	▲	masfuerte 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Same here. And I just noticed yesterday that Firefox had added and enabled a "Suggestions from sponsors" feature. Which I've now disabled, but presumably it's been sending anything I type into the address bar to Mozilla since 2021. I am tired of Mozilla but Chrome is very much worse. ETA: I only noticed yesterday because a "sponsored suggestion" popped up when I was typing, which I've not seen before. So either they actually enabled it recently, or advertisers don't bid on the kinds of things I usually type.
	▲	8cvor6j844qw_d6 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> Disabling remote search autocomplete I've always have a suspicion that even with auto complete off, some sort of telemetry or obscure feature is still leaking browser address bar text.
	▲	iso1631 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		ctrl-k is for the search box ctrl-l is for the address box At most I want the address box to do is look up a dns name. Which can still be a risk if I were to hit "enter" with sensitive information which could in some cases get pushed out to my DNS provider (which is me, but then it's possible the address would be pushed out to another resolver, and will also be logged in an unexpected place)

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HugoTea 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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...

	▲	andhuman 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Have you tired using the run action instead to clean the data? Win+r

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jasonjayr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This reminds me of the 'spacebar heating' xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/

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xnorswap 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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sheiyei 9 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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UqWBcuFx6NV4r 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	mfro 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn’t work for me. The absolute most infuriating thing is that copying text out of OneNote pastes as AN IMAGE. The only way around this is sanitizing the text in a notepad on the host machine itself.

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8cvor6j844qw_d6 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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.

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SoKamil 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	prmoustache 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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hsbauauvhabzb 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Win+r, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, ctrl+x, esc does this without spawning a non ephemeral window