Make 'paste when Discord has focus' optional to prevent accidental copy/paste of sensitive information.

Howdy!

So the other day I accidentally copy/pasted a password I just copied from my password manager into my servers' chat. This never happened before and I thought it was a dumb accident. Today I read the Discord change-log and saw this:

You can now paste in chat without having to click into the chat box. As long as your computer is focused on Discord and not another window, you can paste anything without having to click again

I think this will lead to a terrible user experience: When you copy a password from your password manager and close it, the last active window will get its' focus back again. I thought this would be my browser but it happened to be discord. I always look at the active chat inputs when pasting and I saw on my 2nd monitor it wasn't discord that was active at the moment by looking at the text input box.

To add, I can't really imagine the benefits of this functionality other than accidentally pasting sensitive information into Discord. I would love to discuss this with other UX/Front-end developers but for now I don't see any pro's over the cons regarding this functionality.

I'm on a Windows machine by the way.

edits: spelling

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