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One thing has always bothered me about Spider-Man. Most people, I think, are aware that Spider-Man's wrist-mounted web shooters are activated with a small lever that he presses with his middle two fingers.
However, attaching an activator to your palm seems like a pretty terrible idea if you then plan on using your hands for things. Has he ever triggered his webbing accidentally, or have any villains ever exploited this feature?
In The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) issue #2 we see that the web shooters have a safety catch to prevent accidentally firing them.
We also see that his shooters require a very specific pattern to activate making it hard to trigger accidentally or by someone else.
We do actually see Spider-Man accidentally shoot his webs in the 2002 film Spider-Man — but here the webs are genetic and not from shooters.
If I recall correctly, activation requires a specific amount of pressure to prevent accidental firing. i.e. you need to tap the button twice.
And yes villains have crushed, melted, damaged etc. his mechanical web shooters plenty of times. This question has the answer
And Deadpool stole Spidey's webshooter
The only example of a web shooter accidentally going off, is in Spider-Man 2099 when someone squeezed Miguel's wrist and his organic web shooter covered the floor with web fluid. And he kept thinking, "Please don't look down!"
...or have any villains ever exploited this feature?
I haven't had much luck looking it up, but I remember reading one Spiderman comic in the 70's where a super-strong opponent of his grabbed his wrists and squeezed, smashing the web shooters.
He could of course go home and repair them, but it put that feature of his skillset off-limits for the rest of that particular fight.
