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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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