[sf-lug] what's the mechanism that a website can use to prevent stored information from filling out a form?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Samir Faci (samir at esamir.com):

> I really don't think it's on the bank side to disable that feature.  

Many banks, medical concerns, and other security-sensitive institutions
have an incentive to discourage password saving/autocompletion in Web
browsers used on their sites.  They typically do so via the
autocomplete="off" function to the HTML <input> tag, as mentioned
upthread.

If you, as a Web browser-using Internet user, would rather make up your
_own_ mind whether to password-save, you can force the DOM to do so, as
detailed here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/62980/how-to-force-your-browser-to-remember-passwords/

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