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Copy inspect
What does this site actually put on my clipboard?
A page can rewrite what you copied. The common version is a "read more at …" line appended to every selection; the less common version replaces the text entirely. A clipboard carries several flavours at once - plain text, HTML, sometimes more - and the one that gets pasted depends on where it lands, so all of them are shown.
Reach it Press ⌘ + K on any tab and type copy inspect. Ctrl + K on Windows and Linux
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What this actually is
what the page actually puts on your clipboard when you copyOn any site where a paste has arrived with something you did not select, and as a check on your own site: a copy handler that appends a tracking parameter is a thing people notice and resent.
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4 of themWhy show more than the plain text?
Because a paste into a rich editor takes the HTML flavour and a paste into a terminal takes the plain one. A tool that showed only the second would miss exactly the case where the two disagree.
Does it watch my clipboard?
No. It reads the copy event on a page while the tool is open. Nothing is stored, nothing is transmitted, and it has no access to anything you copied elsewhere.
Is a "read more" line always a problem?
No - it is a decision, and this tool exists to make it a visible one. Plenty of sites do it deliberately; the ones worth knowing about are the ones that do it without saying so.
Can it show what a paste will look like?
It shows the payload as the page produced it. What a particular application makes of that is that application’s business, which is why the flavours are listed rather than merged into one preview.
how to use copy inspect
- Open Copy inspect, then select text on the page and copy it the way you normally would.
- Read every flavour on the payload - plain text, HTML, and anything else the page attached.
- Compare the appended text against what you actually selected.
- It runs on an explicit copy only; nothing watches the clipboard in the background.
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