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by jlokier 1972 days ago
Cloud services and other third party software starting to generate and require bearer tokens in this format.

It will be easiest for developers in a hurry or without knowledge to simply copy and paste these third party strings.

(Pedantry is only required when writing their own software to generate bearer tokens, not even using a library or framework, and developers rarely do that, especially the kinds of things written in a rush.)