Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Paste blocking
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Paste blocking, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 6 complaints
- Copying text silently changes the clipboard, adding copyright info nobody asked for2025-09-24
- Blocks pasting into fields, breaking password managers and making account details harder to enter2024-03-08
- Websites block or alter pasting, frustrating password manager use on phones2024-03-08
- Password fields block pasting, so password managers can't fill the verify field2024-03-08
- Blocks pasting card number, forcing manual toggling that can reset the form2022-06-16
- Websites block pasting into password fields, forcing people to type passwords manually2017-05-18