Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin

Re:Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin by vaindil on Thursday August 15, 2024 @01:01AM (#41253232)

I can't comment on all of Chrome's behavior here, but Firefox ignores autocomplete="off" too, and this is noted on MDN [0]. This is because a lot of poorly-managed sites think they're being security-conscious by disabling password managers, so browsers had to step in and ignore the attribute.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

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Re:Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin by Terr_ on Thursday August 15, 2024 @03:50PM (#41259690)

I don't have a problem with either browser supplying credentials that the user has previously used and chosen to save on that particular domain/form/input.

The issue is that Chrome is randomly suggesting all sorts of data even when the last name field is for a medical patient rather than the doctor-user, or when it's a generic chat-message field, and when the user has never ever visited your website before.

Informing all customers that it's out of our hands and can only be stopped by disabling their personal Chrome settings is... Not practical.

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