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   Kerr-Mudd,John to rrhersh@gmail.com   
   Re: Add This Pet Peeve to the Pile   
   03 Nov 20 16:41:13   
   
   From: notsaying@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:18:31 GMT, Richard Hershberger   
    wrote:   
      
   > On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 8:18:20 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:   
   >> I hate it when websites don't give you the option of seeing what   
   >> you've typed when you're filling in a field.   
   >>   
   >> I get that they want to protect people who want to enter important   
   >> info in the middle of an airport waiting area, but for those who are   
   >> alone at home or in an office it would be nice to be able to turn off   
   >> the default and see the minimum 14 character password they are   
   >> forcing us to create with upper and lower case letters and at least   
   >> one number and one non-alphanumeric character.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, there are workarounds, but it would be so much nicer to just   
   >> have a "see typing" option right there.   
   >   
   > We're doing website pet peeves?  Cool!  My current peeve is how every   
   > website nowadays asks if I want them to spam me.  It would be lovely   
   > were there an option to automatically answer no.   
   >   
   > Richard Hershberger   
   >   
      
   Often that just leads to an excess heap of cookies - and it's tricky   
   running "incognito";  and if you slip up just once you're on a marketing   
   list for ever.   
      
      
      
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