On: Don't force users to register before they can buy ...

[ThunderSizzle]

I grew into a habit of writing it to a notepad and copy/pasting if I needed to type a really complicated long password.

[hunter2_ → ThunderSizzle]

I use a bookmarklet to achieve this (a userscript that runs automatically could, too, I imagine).

  javascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(%27input%5Btype%3Dpassword%5D%27)).map(function(el)%7Bel.setAttribute(%27type%27,%27text%27)%7D)

[fsckboy → ThunderSizzle]

oh my sweet summer child, in wintry implementations they don't allow pasting into a password field, and winter has arrived.

[pwg → fsckboy]

> in wintry implementations they don't allow pasting into a password field

With Firefox, setting the "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" about:config setting to false stops this dark pattern, allowing one to paste into fields that the website designer attempted to block one from pasting into.