It is a god awful pattern! It should be gotten rid of across the web.
However, I have noticed that, on some fields, the field rejects certain input without any message if the input is not the correct intended field type. For example, copying a numeric one time password from an email which gets copied as string and pasting on a field which only accepts numbers. This might look like paste blocking but its not.
Can someone educate me more about this? This only seems to decentralize content sharing right? How are servers going to work? They would still be centralized right? Things like REST APIs.
>In what way does google invade your privacy that has made you worse off?
This made me laugh. Let's talk about an example. Imagine the nicest house with all of the features possible. You get to live in the house and enjoy all benefits at not cost whatsoever. Only catch would be that the house would be made of transparent glass and everyone outside gets to see what you are doing at all times. Would you still choose to live in the house? Sure you might, I for one will not because it would make me extremely uncomfortable. It might not directly make me worse off but tracking my every move does not sit right with me.
Using google's service is somewhat like that transparent house except whatever you do on web is tracked, profiled and used against your best interests.
However, I have noticed that, on some fields, the field rejects certain input without any message if the input is not the correct intended field type. For example, copying a numeric one time password from an email which gets copied as string and pasting on a field which only accepts numbers. This might look like paste blocking but its not.