4/6/2021: Get your auto-fills in order

Audit your auto-fills

Plus: Facebook’s “Recent” view, a sleep timer for tabs, and app scams to watch out for

Jared Newman

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April 6, 2021

I’m not sure how it happened, but over time my web browser has amassed all kinds of bad auto-fill data.

The great promise of auto-fill is that you can fill out online forms with one click, but too often I’d have to go back and fix the mistakes that auto-fill made. Phone numbers would come out wrong because the browser tried to add an unnecessary country code, company information would be filled out for personal transactions, and I’d always have to choose between several formatting options for my mailing address. Even worse, auto-fill would sometimes swap in my real email address after I’d already entered a masked email using Abine Blur.