Hide characters when typing password?

I cant find any option in my Nokia Lumia where I would be able to turn off character showing during entering a password (for signing on to appstore or any other app). I cant believe that Nokia, has yet to implement this!? Especially when you are sharing screen/streaming and it is so elementary and important...
Anyone knows about some app that can disable it?
thanks for tips !

Hmmmmm,.... where are you seeing this? Everywhere on my Lumia 930, the password is 'critick'ed' (by displaying bullets instead of characters, although you can see the actual typed in character for a second or two while you are actually typing it in).
If on a website, I believe this is the responsibility of the website code, not the browser. Apps should NEVER display complete passwords while they are being input.
/drt

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