Count the steps the next time a site emails you a code: switch to mail, wait, find the message, open it, find the number, select it, copy it, switch back, paste. A phone does it in one tap. Email should too.
What we built
When a code arrives at a Sodaroad address, it appears on the message row itself with a Copy button. It stays there for fifteen minutes and then the row is an ordinary row again. Codes are stored encrypted, because a code is a credential while it lives.
What the extractor refuses
Order numbers, invoice numbers, tracking numbers, account numbers, amounts of money, bare years, and anything ambiguous. A false positive teaches people to stop trusting the feature, and a feature nobody trusts is a feature nobody uses.
The other half, filling the code into the other site, needs a browser extension. It is on the list.
By Spencer Nicolls