ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites

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ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites - programming.dev

This makes me 😭

Damn, that guy’s fucking dumb lmao
The npm package has about 4000 weekly downloads. I don’t know what that means in terms of popularity.
Less than left-pad. JavaScript devs are wild.
left-pad

String left pad. Latest version: 1.3.0, last published: 6 years ago. Start using left-pad in your project by running `npm i left-pad`. There are 535 other projects in the npm registry using left-pad.

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I know it probably predates String.prototype.padStart(), but it boggles my mind that people aren’t just using the standard one.
String.prototype.padStart() - JavaScript | MDN

The padStart() method of String values pads this string with a given string (repeated and/or truncated, if needed) so that the resulting string has a given length. The padding is applied from the start of this string.

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