From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Tuesday, Richard Hershberger quipped:   
   > 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.   
      
   Blame the privacy laws, Richie.  The sites don't /want/ to ask to spam   
   you, but even less do they want to pay big fines or be blocked.  And   
   actually, the warnings have more to do with selling your data than with   
   spamming you.   
      
   There probably is a Firefox setting or extension to automatically   
   answer no, Chrome is a bit more iffy, early Edge probably not, and I   
   don't know about Edge-as-skin-on-Chrome.   
      
   /dps   
      
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