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calgoo ◴[] No.41879171[source]
I always liked the 1Password word passwords… you select the number of words and it generates each word in upper OR lowercase, and connect them with symbols or numbers. Easy to memorize, and better then keepass or others that use more fixed formats: same characters between words and words are just in title format where the first letter is upper case and rest is lowercase.
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jorvi ◴[] No.41879408[source]
The problem is that many sites still use archaic password rules.

1Password should by default just always capitalize one word, and add “1” at the end of the memorable password. Since the words are separated by “-“ or “.”, you already hit the “at least one symbol” rule.

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dark-star ◴[] No.41879566[source]
I especially like sites that disallow pasting into password fields.... Yes, that is apparently a thing, especially for banking or finance related sites (from my experience)
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nerdjon ◴[] No.41879830[source]
I despise sites that disallow pasting into fields.

Banks seem to really like to now allow you to paste direct deposit information, which is insane. I get that they likely are thinking, well we don't want you type it into the first field and copy it into the second.

But I am copying it right from my bank's website, being forced to type it twice is just going to make it more likely I enter an error and I can guarantee you I am looking at that first field when I am typing the verification one.

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ryandrake ◴[] No.41880243[source]
Why is this even a allowed by browsers?

The web developer should not be able to disable pasting. Just like they should not be able to disable autofill, and other features that the user wants and has enabled.

So many things web sites do that are counter to the user's expectation, where I think to myself: Why even have that lever?

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1. brokenmachine ◴[] No.41911308[source]
It all started with <blink> and it's been downhill ever since.