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by throwaway2048 2445 days ago
plenty of stuff (like credit card info for instance) should absolutely never be auto-completed. The browser storing that sorta stuff to disk is stupid and completely avoidable.

Already caught chrome doing this to my Social Security Number before i disabled the functionality entirely. The idea of Chrome automatically auto filling any form it sees labeled "SSN" on any site dosen't inspire confidence.
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Thorrez 2445 days ago
> (like credit card info for instance) should absolutely never be auto-completed

One of LastPass's advertised features is credit card autofill. I assume they advertise it because some users like it.

https://www.lastpass.com/autofill

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xmodem 2445 days ago
One CRM webapp I worked on took our frontenders several attempts at different hacks to get Chrome to stop treating the SSN-equiv field as a credit card autofill.
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DCoder 2445 days ago
What are the odds that those hacks have been broken by Chrome updates since then?
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xmodem 2442 days ago
Probably pretty high. I'm not on that team anymore, but the end users would have complained if it had happened.
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