If you’d have left it @[email protected], it would’ve become a mighty oak. You Westerners are weak. Who wouldn’t want a mighty oak growing out their dick?

Sadly this doesn’t work reliably - an increasing number of sites still manage to block it. Also it prevents other sites from working properly.

My impression from when I’ve encountered this is that it is an attempt to repel bots.

hmm bots don’t use keyboard or mouse copy & paste so I don’t see how that makes sense?

my impression is this is just stupid product managers who don’t understand why it’s a bad idea to force all your users to manually type out their passwords or email addresses just because of the 0.1% of people who would copy and paste one with an error in.