Hello! TIL that macOS has a ‘pasteboard type’ concept which allows developers to inspect metadata about a pasteboard item. For example, 1password adds items to the pasteboard with the type com.agilebits.onepassword.
Why is this useful? A F/OSS mac clipboard manager app called Maccy allows users to ignore pasteboard items by adding their type to an ignore-list.
I tested whether or not the bitwarden firefox extension uses a descriptive paste type for a copied password from the value, but it uses public.utf8-plain-text. So does the bitwarden mac app-store app
To my question: Is it possible for the bitwarden Firefox browser extension to use a custom paste type for generated and stored passwords? That way clipboard managers could opt to ignore those passwords
Hi @bennypowers, this is a popular request from the community here and on Github. I’ll be looking at it Q1 2022 to see if/how we can provide some functionality to exclude copied passwords from common clipboard managers.
To the OP, here’s a link to the GitHub issue. If progress is made, it will likely be visible there. Or it will just show up in release notes and pleasantly surprise us all someday! Pasteboard type · Issue #90 · bitwarden/desktop · GitHub
By the way, as you probably know, Maccy can disregard a whole app. Which is super inconvenient when the app is your browser, but works pretty well if you do your copying and pasting from the desktop app.
