• Gordon Freeman @lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    There are certain sites which terminate your sessions after a while. For example, banking sites or most government portals. In such situations, the auto fill function is very handy.

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      1 year ago

      Also the fact that if you use a shared machine at all to login, it’s best practice to intentionally log out of everything, and clear cookies/cache when you’re done.

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      It also allows you to use long, complex, safe passwords, use different ones on every site, and not have to remember them.