"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 19:51:45 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:32:38 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 18 June 2018 18:36:53 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mark wrote:
I tend to use the one in my address book by clicking on it. No
chance of a typo then. Relying on the browser recognising a
link
might just get you to a false one you've used before.

Well, if you have visted a copycat site, then delete it from
your
browser history PDQ!

If you do all the right things, these copycat sites are nothing to
worry about. Sadly, many don't do all the right things.

What are all the right things ?

Try reading the thread?

You seem to think from your address book is the correct place get such
things.

I do it the other way Roboform keeps track of the url currently being
used and allows you to click on the icon to supply the username and
password when the url matches what you used previously.

I don't really like auto-fill to that extent.

More fool you. If you have a different password for
each site, it makes no sense to be looking each one
up and typing the damned thing in every time.

That way, even if you click on a link in an email or popup
and get to a fake site, the icon which fills the username
and password doesnt appear so you know its a fake site.

When I went to paypay nothing was filled
in autiomatically as I don't like auto-fill.

And it wouldnt be filled in automatically
because the url isnt right.

If I go to a new sight I want to be prompted for details
as I use differnt details depending on what I;m doing.
For instance in my financail transactions with my bank I've
never used the name whisky dave and have never used gmail.

You are free to have a number of different ones and choose
the one you want to use for a particular new site.

Same with work related I never use WD it;s always
either my college email or grouplab email address.

Ditto.

It does a lot more than just that, it automatically fills
in forms on screen when you tell it to so when you
start using a new supplier, it fills in all the address
details when registering if you tell it to do that.

I've never wanted that option, even though
I cna see it has some advantages.

Yes, you are that terminal a ****wit.

Main problem with it is that it doesnt work as
well on the iphones and ipads because apple
wont let apps do that stuff on their devices
due to the sandboxing they have in iOS.

Yep seems like a good choice to me sandboxing that is.