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I love Autohotkey because, in addition to its productivity benefits, it's a defensive tool against dark patterns imposed by user-hostile companies.

For example, I've been using it for years to enter my Runescape password [1] due to Jagex being clueless about security [2]

[1] https://reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/gxapao/how_to_paste_...

[2] https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/

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My favorite use case for it is a hotkey to autofill my username and password for Zwift. Zwift is a cycling app that I'm only interacting with while I'm sitting on my bicycle (on a trainer indoor)

I have 0 patience for entering a password... I'm sitting there in spandex with a fan blowing in my face and I'm holding a wireless keyboard. Anything more than Ctrl+Alt+1 is too mcuh work

Runelite (https://runelite.net) enables you to do so, fwiw.

Is this a recent improvement? I'm pretty sure I had Runelite back when I came up with the AHK script, two or three years ago. Or maybe the issue came up while I was playing RS3? It's been a while so I don't remember the details!

Nope, but you do have to enable it in the settings last I checked. Not certain about RS3.

Ah I see, good to know! Thank you for that. I searched the web and apparently it's part of the "Login Screen" plugin https://runelite.net/blog/show/2018-11-22-1.5.1-Release/

I work in a large enterprise who's idea of single sign on is you use the same dialog for everything and have to type your username and password every time. They are fairly strict about saving passwords so I use a hot key for my username that also logs the time and date of usage

I'm surprised they're not strict about running AutoHotKey itself.

Strangely enough someone managed to get it installed on the internal app store. If I could find out who it was I'd buy them a beer or eight!

Haven't you seen this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-f-with-paste/...

That's a browser extension, so it can help with websites but not with Runescape, unless I'm missing something?

You can use KeePass for that too, you can even customize the script to press (password)(enter) with a single shortcut.

Note: There are a lot of implementations of KeePass that surpass the original in quality.

KeePassXC is likely the one that's best for most people who wish to go down the standalone application route: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-keepassx

Since quite a while ago now, Tails switched from KeePassX to KeePassXC: https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/manage_pas...

So if you're still on KeePass, KeePass2, or KeePassX - consider upgrading to KeePassXC.

Another vote for KeepassXC. An amazing fork.

Oh yes, KeepPassXC it's a nice upgrade.

The main reason why I recommend regular Keepass, it's because it's usually whitelisted in company owned equipments (with something like Microsoft Endpoint Software Center), so even if you don't have admin or permission to install your own software, regular Keepass it's still available.

Yeah, being able to use it through type passwords in the terminal, in a DB GUI, even a VDI session is pretty neat.

I wanted to switch to one with better mobile experience, but the desktop experience in KeepassXC does make it worthwhile

you only have to login to jagex launcher once to start runescape without a password btw. you can also manage alts with it.

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