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A dev feature to suppress auto-fill suggestions for web app fields. #545

Closed WebWeWantBot closed 2 years ago

WebWeWantBot commented 2 years ago

title: A dev feature to suppress auto-fill suggestions for web app fields. date: 2022-05-11T21:46:45.261Z submitter: Jenelle Anderson number: 627c2ec5a9a56800582b048d tags: [ ] discussion: https://github.com/WebWeWant/webwewant.fyi/discussions/ status: [ discussing || in-progress || complete ] related:

MS Edge open something mandate implemented an auto fill feature that uses personal/profile data. For developers, there can be numerous instances in the apps they're creating where "name" might not be your name--such as an event name, a pet name, a macro name, a folder name, the name of an app or appointment you want to create/register using their tool.

There ought to be an override feature for a developer to disable that "linkage" (after all, 100% of the time, input fields are First Name, Last Name: the first name displays my email address as one of the suggestions, and I have to retype my last name 100% of the time. It never remembers "last name" which is lame.

But when I'm inputting NAME--for an app, a team, a file, a .sln etc., the last thing I expect to see is my actual name and/or a link to my profile. I'm sure that this request is addressed in a Developer SDK , but I cannot find the answer--and why in the world anyone would want a VIDEO about this, well, evolution does strange things.

If posted, this will appear at https://webwewant.fyi/wants/627c2ec5a9a56800582b048d/

aarongustafson commented 2 years ago

This HTML feature can be used to prevent suggestions like that on individual fields: autocomplete="off".

On the user side, you can also edit the browser's saved data (out turn off the feature entirely) in your settings. Look for "form data."