Disable Copy & Paste

iqbal_codeace

I want to disable copy paste feature in cryptpad is there any way to do this?

Mathilde

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out and for your interest in CryptPad!

There is no way to disable copy/paste. Even if it was possible I should say that it's a very easy thing to overcome thanks to all the nice Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solutions out there now.

On Apple macOS & iOS, you can simply take a photography or a screenshot of what is shown on screen and then select the text from it and copy it.

Hope this helps!

ddmmiixx

Mathilde

Hello Mathilde, 🙂

The CryptPad project is super cool and I love many of its features.

But it seems to me that the workaround you propose is a bit convoluted and cumbersome, when you simply want to modify text and paste some content into the text editor. I don't see the need to have to take a screenshot and use an OCR application 😮.

Ideally, you should be able to use the Context Menu of the phone's Operating System in a basic and usual way in a text editor.

In the other discussion/post related to this problem, there are already several different users who reported this limitation. Cryptpad's colleague @David has also reported that he has reproduced the same problem in his browser.

How to disable the Cryptapd context menu in Rich Text Editor
- https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/2354-how-to-disable-the-cryptapd-context-menu-in-rich-text-editor

Thank you very much for your time!
King regards.

Mathilde

Hello,

ddmmiixx But it seems to me that the workaround you propose is a bit convoluted and cumbersome, when you simply want to modify text and paste some content into the text editor.

I think you are mistaken. See the original message and the subject of this forum thread. It's about disabling copy & paste, not how to do it.

Hence, my response seems appropriate.