This is getting to be a real bugbear of mine, and from what I understand it's becoming more common.
A few of you might have heard of Tynt, a site that offers clipboard-hijacking services. With their API on your site, users that copy your content will either have the content they copy altered or a link to the website they sourced the information from will be placed at the end.
I object on a fundamental level to allowing anyone but myself access over my clipboard. It's a personal aspect of the computer and not one I plan on letting marketers into.
Previously, blocking clipboard hijacking was easy because Tynt were the only ones trying it, so setting up a hosts redirect for tcr.tynt.com killed it all without issue. Now, however, I see that other sites are hosting their own imitations, which do much the same thing.
Here's a JavaScript applet from one such site: http://www.lyricsmania.com/copy.js
You can test it out yourself by looking at any page of theirs: http://www.lyricsmania.com/watershed_lyrics_mark_hollis.html and copying any of the lyrics from there. They will add a link to their own site and a spam link beneath it.
Is it possible to instruct Google Chrome to block all scripts of this specific type? Is there a way to blanket deny pamphleteers access to my clipboard? I'd love to hear what anyone thinks.
I could use NoScript, but unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't contain any intelligent code to recognise JavaScript that's trying to hijack my clipboard, so it's not particularly useful here.