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You are right, but my personal problem here is autocomplete is automatically applied where it should not be. [1]

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587466...

There is no general solution; only the end-user is smart enough to know when autocomplete should be used, and asking them to specify it for every field is too much work.

Personally, I installed a Safari plugin to ignore autocomplete=off because it was so annoying. So Chrome is doing what I want my browser to do.

That's just it, maybe it is time to put it back into the hands of the end-user? You don't need to ask the user for every field, just an override for fields that have autocomplete=off. Add a simple mark for "Autocomplete was turned off on this site for this field" where clicking it overrides. You could add similar marks for fields with onpaste handlers to deactivate them.

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