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> Randomizing form field names […] will prevent auto filling fields by browsers and password managers.

I wholly agree that this would not help, but for the sake of completeness, I want to point out that <input autocomplete=""> [0] is designed to solve this, by decoupling input field names from their intent.

But Chrome is playing dumb about it [1]. And of course, the spambots will just adapt to parse the autocomplete info…

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

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/chromiu...



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