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Re:Safari tries to fill username by XCSme on Friday May 28, 2021 @10:24AM (#27315651)
No, the website should have the option to overwrite the browser decision.

For example, for a multiplayer game I worked on, you could set a password when you create a private room in the game. The browser always auto-filled it with your account password, which is definitely not good because you have to share the room password with others. Telling the browser to not autocomplete that filled didn't work, because "the browser should know better than the website" thing you mentioned.

Re:Safari tries to fill username by joshuaissac on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:45PM (#27319659)
For this specific case, the website could generate a password on room creation and show it to the user in a non-editable field.
Re:Safari tries to fill username by XCSme on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:52PM (#27319717)
Users want to choose the password themselves because they have to share it with others, so they usually create a funny password.