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0 pointsrieTohgh63y ago0 comments

> use oauth with google or whatever and automatically get the name and birthdate from there

After recent story about github ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917962 anything that asks for more that email is a instant 'close tab and never return' for me. And even before, there is no way I am allowing any site to access may date of birth (despite it being fake one anyway)

And going back to "autocomplete" - it looks that browsers "know better" than developers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12374442/chrome-ignores-...

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scrollaway3y ago

> anything that asks for more that email is a instant 'close tab and never return' for me.

OK? Unrelated to what I was talking about. I'm saying devs do it out of convenience. What you do with that is not their problem, really. Most people like Google auth.

> And going back to "autocomplete"

Again, totally irrelevant? I was not talking about autocomplete=off, but about the dozens of available autocomplete values, which is what leonidasv was asking about: A standard for the various autofill forms.

Funnily enough, you're nicely showcasing the problem yourself: You're a developer who didn't bother doing the research, and yet complains upthread about the lack of standards or whatever. I invite you to look at this page:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

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