Today I tried to paste my account number from my cheat sheet into ING Direct’s form, only to find that they’d disabled the Paste function. Circumventing this by turning off Javascript isn’t an option, since their Submit button is also Javascript-reliant. This puts users in a bind.
This practice is inherently user-hostile, so here’s one way to get around it. (It works on the Mac, but I can’t vouch for other platforms.)
If you have the account number in a text document, select it, then drag it from your document over to the ING Direct form’s text field. Since this is a system-level event rather than browser-level, it cannot be blocked by Javascript (at least not as easily). It’s still not as convenient as Copy/Paste, but at least it saves typing, and about 15 seconds of your time. (Okay, so I’m numerically dyslexic.)
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