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https://www.costco.com/DNSMIView

https://simpleoptout.com/#costco

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Arg, can't paste in my membership number in the confirm box.

I wonder why this gets disabled? Is this a rule in some obscure security ruleset?

And this is a brand-new form... So someone recently came up with it.

Completely annoying. I can't imagine any legitimate reason for disabling paste, and I work in cyber security. (There are poorly thought out reasons for disabling paste such as trying to discourage bots, but those sorts of attacks can easily work around such "security" measures.)

Example workaround with Hammerspoon:

https://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#pasteblock

https://www.costco.com/DNSMIView

lol: This site is protected by reCAPTCHA.

can you elaborate on why that's concerning (or otherwise remarkable)?

I'll take that over hCaptcha's abusive anti-user bullshit any day.

What did hCaptcha do that was anti-user?

reCAPTCHA is awful. This is my experience on a daily basis if I make the mistake of trying to use it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_TsZB3zQFQ

It's often only possible to complete with the accessibility feature or the Buster add-on.

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