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by OptionOfT 739 days ago
Arg, can't paste in my membership number in the confirm box.

I wonder why this gets disabled? Is this a rule in some obscure security ruleset?

And this is a brand-new form... So someone recently came up with it.

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Completely annoying. I can't imagine any legitimate reason for disabling paste, and I work in cyber security. (There are poorly thought out reasons for disabling paste such as trying to discourage bots, but those sorts of attacks can easily work around such "security" measures.)
Example workaround with Hammerspoon:

https://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#pasteblock