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Password fields that block pasting
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2012–2024), in 9 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Paste blocked, forcing users to type long random passwords twiceUnreviewed
20122026- Blocked pasting forces typing long mixed passwords by hand, causing repeated errors2024-06-11
- Users cannot paste generated passwords, so they resort to weaker passwords2024-03-08
- Can't paste passwords, so a password manager can't fill them in2023-04-23
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Blocked pasting forces typing long mixed passwords by hand, causing repeated errors2024-06-11
- Users cannot paste generated passwords, so they resort to weaker passwords2024-03-08
- Can't paste passwords, so a password manager can't fill them in2023-04-23
- Forced retyping of passwords makes mistakes likelier and discourages password managers2021-05-28
- Paste is blocked, forcing users to manually type long random passwords twice2017-05-18
- Typing secure random passwords by hand is painfully hard, especially on mobile2016-06-26
- Users cannot paste passwords, forcing them to type randomized keyboards each login2016-06-26
- Blocking paste forces users to type passwords by hand, increasing the chance of typos2016-05-22
- Users cannot paste their password, so they must type it manually2014-06-02
- Pasting into password field is blocked, forcing manual typing or DOM hacks2012-04-06