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The example used is a URL. I don't believe there is an equivalent for the address bar. Plenty of other examples exist, but that one is pretty easily reachable by users.


But you shouldn't be asking users to copy UUIDs out of your URLs... or really in general at all.


Why not?

> Customer: "I'm having issues with an order"

> CS: "Can you give me the order number?"

> Customer: "Sure, it's zero two a as in apple five..."

This seems entirely reasonable considering the whole point of TFA is to move away from using UUIDs as unique identifiers for resources in a service.


I’m inferring the comment you were responding to meant

“Asking the customer to copy/paste the UUID from a URL to send to Support via an email or chat.”

Rather than asking a customer to read it out to you.


API keys are basically just UUID's, they need copying quite often.




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