Tangentially related, but I hate by-default enabled middle mouse paste on Firefox. I use autoscroll (hold middle mouse) to browsing, and it keeps sending paste on the site. Why is it enabled by default??
At best it's mild inconvenience, at worst it leaks company data to outside websites that bother to capture it.
Because this is how copy-paste always worked on X11.
I'm used to it, so I hate apps that don't respect it. The option to disable it is an app-specific option to override the environment's default behaviour.
I use quick kind of flicks, so it's not a long time total the button is pressed. It also requires quite minimal amount of force to press. Concern is appreciated though
Middle mouse doesen't scroll by default as far as i know, autoscroll has to be enabled from the settings. The functionalities seem to overlap when scrolling is enabled, which isn't expected.
Auto-pasting clipboard contents has security implications, whilst not having it only has inconvenience
At best it's mild inconvenience, at worst it leaks company data to outside websites that bother to capture it.