I bet you're reading this because you don't use a clipboard manager.
Some of you may not even know what a clipboard manager is.
In a nutshell...
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Clipboard managers sketch me out because I use a password manager. I don't even like the new Windows Cloud Clipboard, and I have a pretty high degree of faith that Microsoft is not snooping on or selling my clipboard data behind my back. Just having a recorded history of the sensitive pieces of information I have had on my clipboard at one time or another makes me uncomfortable.
This is the single worst piece of security-related advice I've seen on Dev. I don't mean to be a jerk, but this is downright dangerous even though you do mention that a password manager is a better for managing credentials than a clipboard manager.
I'm a developer, I have multiple environments, logins, and systems that I need to access as different users and personas. This is even more true for our testers. It's a lot easier to use a tool than typing testuser1@company.com with my arbitrary passwords every time. I'm not stating you should be saving your banking details and social media credentials in your clipboard manager, although if your copy and pasting them from elsewhere anyway, they'll be there by default!
Let's not lie to ourselves that people don't have files full of credentials lying around on their desktop 😊
It's an interesting take on data security. I don't think ditto will take your details off the system, as they're all stored locally, without any syncing capability integrated. I'm more worried about the questions I ask Google by all accounts!
Thanks for adding to the discussion
Absolutely. And a clipboard manager without a blacklist of programs (to blacklist said password managers) is useless and dangerous!
On macOS I use Pastebot - $12.99 tapbots.com/pastebot/
I used to use jumpcut, which is free - snark.github.io/jumpcut/ but at the time that I bought pastebot, jumpcut didn't work on Catalina - looks like they just updated it for the first time in a decade this past september.
Couldn't agree more how convenient a clipboard manager is!
They're great eh! Definitely one of my most used tools. Well worth paying for it if you feel it's worthwhile
Been telling people about clipboard managers for ages. Always surprised when people have no idea what I'm talking about.
Big fan of CopyQ which is cross platform so I can use it everywhere.
You can also setup rules of where you don't want to keep a copy (like from your password manager)
Using Ditto here, it's a life saver 😃
Ditto is the best
Is it named after the pokemon??
Love how you included all OSes.
Thanks Louise. Hope it helps someone.
Didn't know this things existed!
Good article. I have been using Flycut in mac for over a year. It's pretty simple, free and does the job perfectly.
Great to hear you've found a decent clipboard for you! They're pretty great eh!
The default clipboard provided by windows is also good for solving copy paste problem