Someone shared the code in the comments, it uses 'copy' and 'cut' event listeners, so disabling this setting would have prevented the exploit regardless of an adblock.
It's Google versus Mankind.
Mankind will eventually prevail against Evil. Google pissed off too many people now, you only need to look at reddit's degoogle subreddit.
A drop in the ocean…
Google is constantly rushing from growth record to growth record in the last years.
The tolerance for slavery, brutal warfare, institutionalized racism and much more is way lower now than it has been in the past.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
The world has always be run by oligarchs, and nothing changed since ten thousands of years.
Most people today on this planet are still slaves.
For years one of the perks of being a soldier was raping and pillaging, now that lands you in prison (depending on the country of course).
The world isn’t some utopia where everyone is treated fairly and there are no oligarchs, but I think it’s hard to argue that the amount of justice is unchanged for all of human history.
Do you know that today's soldiers still rape and pillage?
I agree.
It got worse.
The inequality between people was never so high in history! Hard fact.
Now some people "earn" more money while they breeze in and out then large amounts of people earn in their whole life.
Also now the slaves have to pay everything themself (like food, shelter, clothes, in some countries even education). Progress!
Are you saying that a black person born in South Carolina today has a worse life and with less justice than a black person born into slavery a few hundred years ago?
I don’t think slaves got university educations for free.
And why only black people?
If copy and paste is disabled in my default browser that would be something like 80% of my total of my total use cases for the clipboard in the first place.
The former is a system event, not a browser one.
This is similar to how on google docs if you try to copy via the edit menu, it pops up to say use Ctrl-C instead.
Honestly, I too am surprised a JavaScript plugin was able to access and alter the system clipboard in the first place too.
For external situations I agree. No clue why browsers started to sniff after people. I blame Google for that.