I discovered, to my dismay, that mobile browsers seem to have a different character limit than desktop browsers for JavaScript prompt() input. How can I work around it to input my long string on mobile? Here's a nice page for testing: https://javascript.info/alert-prompt-confirm#a-simple-page I used printf '%s ' {1..1250} to generate a suitable test string. Please find the resulting 5142-character string below.

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On a Mac desktop's Chrome, the website accepts this input, no problem. On Android, it cuts off the input in the middle of 1222, at 5000 characters, and I'm unable to type more. I've tried Brave, DuckDuckGo, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. The behavior is the same in all these mobile browsers. Changing to the desktop layout in the browser settings has no effect.

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