Not always. My mortgage company uses a software where it treats the password as invalid if it’s autofilled. I have to copy and paste the password into the box to remove the error.
Why people and companies need to make things purposefully difficult is beyond me. This shit is decades old and solved. Yet, they’re still constantly broken.
From my experience, I think this also happens because of badly written code, where it tries to detect user input to do validation, but it handles events incorrectly and sees autofill as invalid.
Not always. My mortgage company uses a software where it treats the password as invalid if it’s autofilled. I have to copy and paste the password into the box to remove the error.
Why people and companies need to make things purposefully difficult is beyond me. This shit is decades old and solved. Yet, they’re still constantly broken.
What usually works is adding a character at the end of the autofilled password and then removing it
My old bank would not allow pasted passwords, nor autofill. For a while PayPal was the same way.
Many password managers have a function where they can fill the password by sending key presses for troublesome sites like that.
https://github.com/marcos10pc/dont-f--with-paste-bookmark
Don’t fuck with paste - a bookmarklet for those occasions.
Security theater. “Look, boss, i made thing more secure!”
From my experience, I think this also happens because of badly written code, where it tries to detect user input to do validation, but it handles events incorrectly and sees autofill as invalid.
I found that a lot of banks reject it unless both of the fields have been active inputs.
So do the auto fill, then click each field so it thinks they were both used, then click login.
Dumb, but two of my financial institutions require it.