Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"
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HN comment orderA few years ago, I left a $1000 tip at the restaurant up the street because Chrome filled out the tip field with my zip code (which thankfully merely defaulted to max $1000 instead). The tip field was off-screen, and the ordering software didn't have a confirmation screen, just a "we just charged your card $X amount" screen, which made my eyes boggle. EDIT: Looking at the original March 17th, 2015 bug, it would have been at exactly around that…
Unfortunately, the decision to ignore the autocomplete attribute also makes it very hard to help the browser pick up the appropriate autofill username/password fields. All browsers right now basically assume that if you have an input type="password", then the previous input type="text" must be the username field. And there's little you can do to change this without resorting to substantial hacks like using a hidden username-looking honeypot field to eat the poor browser behavior. For example, imagine a pop-up…
Chrome does not respect autocomplete=off (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26309919 - March 2021 (74 comments)
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-11 | Autofill does not respect autocomplete=“off” | pier25 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-10-13 | Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"First breakout · Best thread | bullman | 820 | 367 |
| 2021-03-01 | Chrome does not respect autocomplete=off (2018) | nikanj | 134 | 74 |
| 2021-05-19 | Chrome Autofill doesn't respect autocomplete=offLatest 20+ point return | react_burger38 | 51 | 55 |
| 2022-11-21 | Autofill does not respect autocomplete=“off” | shanghaikid | 2 | 3 |