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  • It prevents any website being able to run intercepts on pasting. This is good when they’re using it to just prevent you from doing it for no real reason but there are many situations where you don’t want a user to be able to arbitrarily just drop text into a text field.

    The big one is 2fa. A lot of the time you might need to enter a five digit code and each number may need to be entered into a particular box if you just click in the first box and press paste after copying the code from an email then it’ll paste the entire contents into that one box. You don’t want that you want some code to automatically paste each letter into each subsequent box, that requires you intercept the original paste command.








  • Now is the time for the twitter devs to implement “arse covering mode”. Although they probably have been in that mode since the buyout.

    Keep every email. Recorder or otherwise document every phone call, and insist on every instruction being in writing.

    It’s amazing how many managers no longer want you to do a thing when you insist that the instructions to do that thing are in writing.