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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by sjs382 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:17AM (#26551055)
It looks like paste and it's almost the same from the user perspective, but the data never makes it to the clipboard, where it would be available to every running application.
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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by shakna on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:35AM (#26551469)
From what I can see, KeePass does use the clipboard. [0]

[0] https://github.com/dlech/KeePass2.x/blob/VS2019/KeePassLib/N...

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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by sjs382 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:24AM (#26551708)
Sorry, I didn't mean to speak with any authority on the specifics of KeePass. I'm neither a developer nor a user. I was just explaining the parent.

That said, the implementation probably differs on different platforms. 1Password, for example, uses a virtual "keyboard" on Android.

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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by JohnTHaller on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:07AM (#26555926)
That's a different option (CTRL-C). You can copy and paste the username and password. There's a default clearing timeout that's more to ensure the user doesn't accidentally paste it elsewhere. The auto-type option I mentioned is different.
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Re:Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k by shakna on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:10PM (#26575365)
> The auto-type option I mentioned is different.

It actually falls back to the clipboard [0], in a huge number of situations [1]. Basically, if Windows Forms isn't available/reliable.

[0] https://github.com/dlech/KeePass2.x/blob/VS2019/KeePassLib/U...

[1] https://github.com/dlech/KeePass2.x/blob/VS2019/KeePassLib/U...

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