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> It's increasingly difficult to opt out of browser autofill

Good. I hope browsers autodetect these web font tricks and pop up similar warnings. I can't stand when some random website make thinks it can do a better job of credential security than major browser makers.

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I think the point is more like an HR administrator who opens a web page, containing an employee's details. They need to update the employee's home phone number, but their password manager dumps the HR administrator's password into the "Set new password" field, which is therefore overwritten.

So don't put the "set new password" field right in the employee's details page, use an extra page or popup for that.

Our application is still maintained, so we can find workarounds or restructure the form to use an extra popup (to the detriment of usability). But i'm sure many applications won't be updated, and as a result of this change, data will be silently corrupted when they are used. The browser has knowingly broken compatibility with the web application.

This is a Torvalds "don't break userspace" moment.

Fair enough, that's a valid concern. But it wouldn't be solved by allowing pages to opt-out of autofill, since they'd have to be updated to use those as well.

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