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As a user I'm more often annoyed by autocompletion not working when it should. Either disabled by the developer or just defunct. However they might want to ste

As a user I'm more often annoyed by autocompletion not working when it should. Either disabled by the developer or just defunct. However they might want to step up their game on not trying to fill every user/password field they find. For example, Gitlab repository mirror settings will be autofilled with your login credentials and they will be saved if you don't pay attention to yellow boxes.

Brian_K_White 8y ago
As a user I'm more often annoyed by autocompletion than the lack of it. I turn it off everywhere I can, including things like the keyboard on my phone. So that's a no-op, two microscopic anecdotal data points that exactly cancel each other out. Being a user or speaking from the perspective of a user didn't make any special difference. I do like one form of auto-complete, which is the tab-complete in the bash shell. You are not autofilled or autocompleted or auto re-written or auto "you typed foo but we're showing you results for 'food' instead" 99% of the time. But once in a blue moon when you actually want something to be autocompleted, you can get suggestions for that one thing on the spot with an extra keypress. But you have to ask for it. It never messes with you all by itself.