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Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
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Re: Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
#12What kind of password manager are you using that freely puts passwords in regular ( or unmasked) text input boxes? Edit: typo
Both LastPass and Bitwarden have browser extensions that will attempt to fill in login prompts on demand for sites that are detected as being connected to entries.
Bitwarden makes me explicitly fill it, maybe that's a setting I hit without realizing. It certainly doesn't attempt to automatically submit the form.
Re: Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
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Re: Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
#14A tag on that page would also go a long ways towards making it password manager friendly.
Re: Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
#15What kind of password manager are you using that freely puts passwords in regular ( or unmasked) text input boxes? Edit: typo
What kind of password manager doesn't? The whole point of a password manager browser extension is to autofill usernames in username boxes, and autofill passwords into password boxes. Obviously a password is never put in a box where it would be visible, it's always a masked one. And obviously it only does it if the domain matches. I probably log into 10-15 sites a day on average. I sure as heck don't want to have to b…
You misunderstood me. I said “into an unmasked text input field” which is different from a “password input field”
It’s one where the password isn’t replaced with •••••• as you type it and remains visible.
Re: Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
#16What kind of password manager are you using that freely puts passwords in regular ( or unmasked) text input boxes? Edit: typo
Both LastPass and Bitwarden have browser extensions that will attempt to fill in login prompts on demand for sites that are detected as being connected to entries.
You misunderstood me. I said “into an unmasked text input field” which is different from a “password input field”
It’s one where the password isn’t replaced with •••••• as you type it and remains visible.
Re: Ask HN: HN's login page and password manager autofill issue
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of password manager doesn't? The whole point of a password manager browser extension is to autofill usernames in username boxes, and autofill passwords into password boxes. Obviously a password is never put in a box where it would be visible, it's always a masked one. And obviously it only does it if the domain matches. I probably log into 10-15 sites a day on average. I sure as heck don't want to have to b…
You misunderstood me. I said “into an unmasked text input field” which is different from a “password input field” It’s one where the password isn’t replaced with •••••• as you type it and remains visible.
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