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What are all these websites that prevent pasting? I noticed a few people are using tools to get around these.

m0nty 7y ago
If you mean "why do they prevent pasting?" -- because their talented and conscientious devs think password managers are insecure. I've tried emailing several webmasters about this but it's a waste of time.
CydeWeys 7y ago
A common one I see is when you're entering in bank account information and they force you to retype the account and/or routing number, even though you never typed it in to begin with because you just copy-pasted it from your bank's website :/
- vxNsr 6y ago
  The worst is the banks that don’t let you copy it... I don’t understand this insanity around bank account numbers... they should be treated as public info, they’re on every single check, anyone you’ve given a check to has your account number as does your employer...
Forge36 6y ago
It's an easy way to feel smart? I had to put up a fuss about this and cite NIST. My bank tried to do this, but it only works on the username field in chrome?
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zrobotics 6y ago
For a really stupid example, part of my job involves originating truck shipments. One carrier we use has a website that prevents pasting on their web form to generate a bill of lading. Because forcing me to type in an address is much less likely to cause errors than pasting in whatever address I had copied. Funnily enough (in a sad way), 40% of the JS load on that page appears to be anti-pasting logic & supporting libraries. It appears to be developed in-house, since the scripts aren't obfuscated and a quick search of duckduckgo didn't match any open-source libraries that I could find. If they weren't reliably the cheapest carrier with the fewest issues I would raise a stink, but it's not worth it. That, and I just bypassed this 'feature' with a very similar AHK script, and their website has a very nice UI besides that issue.
hateful 6y ago
The irony of all this is that one time in the 00s, I signed up for a website and copied and pasted my email to the verify field and it was wrong!

If you mean "why do they prevent pasting?" -- because their talented and conscientious devs think password managers are insecure. I've tried emailing several webmasters about this but it's a waste of time.

CydeWeys 7y ago

A common one I see is when you're entering in bank account information and they force you to retype the account and/or routing number, even though you never typed it in to begin with because you just copy-pasted it from your bank's website :/

vxNsr 6y ago
The worst is the banks that don’t let you copy it... I don’t understand this insanity around bank account numbers... they should be treated as public info, they’re on every single check, anyone you’ve given a check to has your account number as does your employer...

Forge36 6y ago

It's an easy way to feel smart? I had to put up a fuss about this and cite NIST. My bank tried to do this, but it only works on the username field in chrome?

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zrobotics 6y ago

For a really stupid example, part of my job involves originating truck shipments. One carrier we use has a website that prevents pasting on their web form to generate a bill of lading. Because forcing me to type in an address is much less likely to cause errors than pasting in whatever address I had copied. Funnily enough (in a sad way), 40% of the JS load on that page appears to be anti-pasting logic & supporting libraries. It appears to be developed in-house, since the scripts aren't obfuscated and a quick search of duckduckgo didn't match any open-source libraries that I could find. If they weren't reliably the cheapest carrier with the fewest issues I would raise a stink, but it's not worth it. That, and I just bypassed this 'feature' with a very similar AHK script, and their website has a very nice UI besides that issue.

hateful 6y ago

The irony of all this is that one time in the 00s, I signed up for a website and copied and pasted my email to the verify field and it was wrong!