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Strange Message when Pasting Text


I work on thehollywoodreporter.com. Our editors could no longer use the Drupal 6 CMS because of this sharethis change. When they tried to copy from one field to another in the cms, it would take the string and turn it into:

See more at: <text pasted>&action=edit#sthash.mOyzIP9P.dpuf

I seriously thought our site had been hacked for like 10 minutes. Luckily, the dev community started posting about it, and pointed out it was the new CopyNShare feature sharethis added. I commented out the sharethis code, so our editors could resume publishing, and we got on the phone with our sharethis contact, and they had us change this:

  <script type="text/javascript">var __st_loadLate=true;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script>

to

<script type="text/javascript">var __st_loadLate=true;</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">stLight.options({publisher: "<your publisher key>"doNotHash:falsedoNotCopy:true,hashAddressBar:false});</script>

Apparently, they made a change to their code so that you MUST add 'doNotCopy: true' in order for it NOT to add this hash when you cut and paste within your site! This is their new "product" CopyNShare.

I told them "I don’t think it was popular move to roll out this feature as a new default like this. I seriously thought our site had been hacked for 10-15 minutes. Not fun."

They replied: "I definitely understand your concern, as we share the same concerns on the pub services team. We will be doing a "postmortem" of sorts to ensure we change this process in the future when new product features are rolled out."


As @Punit Pandey suggested, the ShareThis plugin started doing this today (February 27th 2013) without warning. You can disable this new functionality by adding the following JavaScript after the ShareThis-code has initialized:

stLight.options({doNotCopy:true});

The description for this new functionality can be found here: ShareThis CopyNShare Settings


This is happening on my website due to ShareThis plugin. ShareThis adds this tag sthash and an identification ending with dpuf, I guess, to identify website.