[ellen364]

Admittedly my first thought was “Turn off the browser’s auto fill.” On reflection, guessing that, although the work is all in-house, the software team has no influence over the setup of the client devices?

If the devices are all under company control, I suppose they could still turn off auto fill. But in a big company that’s a lot of devices and probably comes out of another department’s budget. Then the auto fill behaviour becomes the web app’s problem, despite being a browser behaviour.

[noduerme]

We have every kind of laptop and mobile device logging in at different levels of access, along with retail stations requiring employee logins and customer facing microservices. At best we can kind of dictate that no one is allowed to use Internet Explorer. The Chrome autofill is a genuine problem on kiosks and workstations. We can barely get retail employees to figure out how to clear a browser cache, much less make them configure the preferences to how we'd like them to be. The front end code has to be written as if the employees have absolutely no clue how to use a computer.