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by manigandham 1886 days ago
If both conclusions can be reached by "reasonable" people then that term is contextually meaningless. Why argue semantics when your own usage is irrelevant?

And I stand by my position that considering an autocomplete to be a keylogger is unreasonable because the obvious purpose of the input is to accept you what you type. Automatically submitting may be a slight surprise but doesn't change the intent as you wouldn't type in the box if you were never going to submit it anyway.

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Don't be too sure of that: you'd be surprised how often I misuse the browser's location bar when I need to make a very quick note when I don't have time to first open a text editor. Once I typed what I wanted to type, I then have time to open a text editor and copy it there. This became a habit for me back when browsers did not try to provide search suggestions in the address bar. I now still turn off the suggestions now to make sure I do not accidentally send data online that I want to keep private.