[karaterobot]

Strongly disagree that most people think of autosuggest in a search form as a keylogger. I've never once heard it referred to as such, outside this thread.

I think most people think of a keylogger as a malicious program that secretly records your keyboard activity when you don't know about it. If they think about it at all, they think of autosuggest as analogous to a form submission.

[volkk]

this is such a classic HN argument, it's almost comical. pedants from every part of the world going at it and even including google search results, picking apart each word that the original author meant to prove their point. this is the kind of conversation that would make me want to rip my head off in an office environment.

but from my POV i would also say that 95% of the time i've ever bumped into the term, it was always used in a cyber attack context. the other 5% was from corporate overlords wanting to spy on your actions.

[hvdijk]

Yeah, please take into account that I only listed the Google search results in reply to a blatantly false claim that Google search returned completely different results. Bullshit needs to be called out.