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By ignoring "hundreds if not thousands of developers" they are respecting the wishes of millions of end-users that don't want the site owner to decide what they can and can't autofill.

Obviously a simple boolean is the wrong design here. But can you suggest a better one?

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I don't think "millions of end-users" want broken websites because now another developer (Google) gets to decide what's correct (instead of the web dev).

A better solution could be to just behave reasonably by default but allow the user to re-enable auto-fill with a single click.

Surely there’s a way to check if a field has some kind of programatic interaction like typeahead. Maybe check for that before taking over with autofill? I don’t know - maybe that would break spec or something - I’m not a browser developer. I just know the pain of autocomplete=“off” not working as expected.

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