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		sspiff on Aug 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by defaul... Erm, can I use reports only Android <4.4 and Opera Mini as not supporting it, and in both those cases Flash won't work either. So why do we need Flash for clipboard actions today?

Drakim on Aug 28, 2015 | [–]

Because JavaScript doesn't give you the option of programmatically messing with the user's clipboard. The best you can do is present a selected string in a textbox for the user to press Ctrl+C

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