**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney · Dec 31, 2017, 03:56

**Craig Maloney ☕ ✅** @craigmaloney · Dec 31, 2017, 03:56

Craig Maloney ☕ ✅ @craigmaloney

Dec 31, 2017, 03:56

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Repeat after me: Marketers are assholes and advertising is malware:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/30/16829804/browser-password-manager-adthink-princeton-research.

Seriously, if someone did this with a script they'd be charged with Computer Hacking, but because it's AdTech it'll get a fucking pass.

Fuck this shit.

**Nathan Wittstock** @fardog@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2017, 04:04

**Nathan Wittstock** @fardog@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2017, 04:04

Dec 31, 2017, 04:04

Nathan Wittstock @fardog@mastodon.social

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@craigmaloney wow. fucking disgusting.

i disabled autofill some time ago in anticipation of this sort of behavior. guess i'm not just paranoid. -.-

**Cercerilla** @cercerilla · 2017-12-31T07:16:50Z

Cercerilla @cercerilla

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@fardog @craigmaloney Even with auto-fill disabled LastPass seems to have removed the option to manually copy the username & password for a site, so you're stuck either going into your vault and viewing the password in plaintext to get at it, or auto-filling everything on the page, which could potentially include any advertisers scripts. Seems like they should allow you to fill in a specific field with a specific bit of data from your vault.

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**Nathan Wittstock** @fardog@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2017, 10:17

**Nathan Wittstock** @fardog@mastodon.social · Dec 31, 2017, 10:17

Dec 31, 2017, 10:17

Nathan Wittstock @fardog@mastodon.social

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@cercerilla In firefox (and in chrome i think) you can right-click the fields in the login form to fill it, which i believe doesn't auto-fill the whole page. i should test more thoroughly to ensure that's true.

know what you mean about the "copy" option; i have no idea why they removed it. i used that a _lot_ until they killed it.