Prevent clipboard copying alt value from profile images

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Proposal

A user may wish to copy the contents of a commit message into a document/Email/IM/etc. from GitLab's user interface. Content can be selected and a CTRL-C to copy the content into the clipboard. However, if the commit messages includes a resolved user/avatar link, the copied content will include the alt text of the user's profile.

For example, this selection of a commit message from GitLab's UI:

With result in the following content:

This is a test.

With another line and sign-off.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Knight <git@...>

It would be nice to not include default avatar in the copied content.

This should be achievable by somehow applying the following style hint for avatars:

user-select: none;