This is one of the few cases where I'm actually in favor of Chrome's rogue behavior, though I think they're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. I've been

This is one of the few cases where I'm actually in favor of Chrome's rogue behavior, though I think they're probably doing it for the wrong reasons. I've been annoyed one too many times by webpages that refuse to allow me to autofill login credentials from my browser, to the point where I had to keep a js bookmarklet to strip that attribute from every element on the page. I always hated that it took such a hacky solution to do something which is so simple, and resented sites that attempted to take that ability away from me. So to me, any change which puts control back in the hands of the user is a good one. I suspect though that the motivation is mostly to "increase engagement" rather than to empower the user.