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Forum Discussion
autofill risks?
I have a friend who is using BitWarden, and I noticed it didn't autofill on websites by default. As I was researching why, I found this page: https://bitwarden.com/help/auto-fill-browser/#on-page-lo...
Thank you so much for the reply! I use the Open and Fill from the MacOS app a lot, so I was thinking of that as "on page load autofill", but I can see why that user action on my part may exclude it from the risks BitWarden is talking about. I am not using the built-in password manager, and I don't have any other relevant extensions - I just wasn't thinking quite right about what on page load autofill is.
It sounds like the view 1Password has on this is it's dangerous enough that they don't even have a checkbox that lets you do it like BitWarden does, which is fine for me. The way 1Password works is so smooth and efficient, that I'm not worried about missing that. When I am logging in from within the browser, rather than initiating from the app, I use the hotkey and that works great for me.
My question remains though, and as a software developer, I'd be happy with a deeply technical answer, as I expect this might need to be. Why is the on page load autofill a risk -- 1Password doesn't support it, and BitWarden warns against it, so I'm convinced, but I'm still curious to understand.
Thank you.
