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0 pointsakvadrako5y ago0 comments

> BW has had other issues before. For example, it tends to send your credentials with basic auth requests without your knowledge and without a setting to turn it off.

This isn't true - I use BW and annoyingly it doesn't work with Basic Auth at all. This is because I have disabled auto-fill.

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jeroenhd5y ago

Ah, it looks like they've fixed that bug, then. It used to be that regardless of your autofill setting, basic auth would be presented; this was because the browser API requires basic auth to be non-interactive and an arbitrary decision has to be made.

From what I can see, this issue was till being reported in April[0] but perhaps it's been patched in the mean time. The devs were been going back and forth about this so long that I stopped paying attention to the issue after a while.

[0]: https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/1408

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