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[–] 63 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    My old bank would not allow pasted passwords, nor autofill. For a while PayPal was the same way.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    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.

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