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I remember hearing before that it's a sign they are storing your info unencrypted but I never checked.

Is this true? I was logging into a .gov website and noticed it does that.

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[-] _core@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Input forms can be designed so that an email input doesn't put a space in it. Notice the .com, .org or whatever doesn't do that, it's just when it's in the username portion. Its just lazy programming to not do it.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

100% why I wrote "the even more stupid form". Someone isn't sanitizing inputs and it drives me nuts every time.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

Idk, I don't think silently removing whitespace in the middle of the text is appropriate (though beginning and end should be stripped), but the form should warm you when there's obviously invalid input.

Silently "correcting" input can be really annoying. For example, my SO's first name has multiple capitals, and some forms "helpfully" split it into two words and the first name gets cut. If I know that, I can spell it without the capitals, but sometimes it doesn't let me know and I need to call in to get it fixed.

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