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I despise sites that disallow pasting into fields.

Banks seem to really like to now allow you to paste direct deposit information, which is insane. I get that they likely are thinking, well we don't want you type it into the first field and copy it into the second.

But I am copying it right from my bank's website, being forced to type it twice is just going to make it more likely I enter an error and I can guarantee you I am looking at that first field when I am typing the verification one.



There is a force paste context menu in brave. Firefox should copy the feature as well, if they still have anyone who works on new features for the browser.


Firefox has had this feature for a long time.

Set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false in about:config.


That is not the same. On Brave it is just a right click and then "force paste".

Plus, I suspect that setting disables the buttons on sites that copy the entire field to your buffer.


Why is this even a allowed by browsers?

The web developer should not be able to disable pasting. Just like they should not be able to disable autofill, and other features that the user wants and has enabled.

So many things web sites do that are counter to the user's expectation, where I think to myself: Why even have that lever?


It all started with <blink> and it's been downhill ever since.




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