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Just wanted to add some detail on how the 1Password extension operates here, since the term "autofill" can be ambiguous: 1. The "autofill" function only fills
by pimlottc 6y ago
Just wanted to add some detail on how the 1Password extension operates here, since the term "autofill" can be ambiguous:
1. The "autofill" function only fills in the credit number when the user specifically tells it to; it does not proactively fill forms with no user intervention.
2. "autofill" does not automatically submit the form after filling (although certain forms may be implemented to submit automatically once complete); in this particular case, the user still has a chance to review the completed form before manually clicking the subscribe button.
- gorkish 6y agoAll of this isn't particularly relevant if the function is abysmally terrible at filling the correct fields with the correct data, which in the case of 1Password certainly seems to be the case. In the example posted here, it happily completed fields for the credit card expiration year TWICE on the same form, one of which was pre-populated with a value that could not possibly have been a year. The apparent cause is because the substring 'year' appeared in the field name. Levenshtein distance of 12 for a 4 letter word? Yep, looks good! I mean, it's a result so certain there's no need to prompt the user, highlight changed fields or anything, right?