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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 864612
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Closed: Sep 6
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OS: All
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Type: Bug


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Autofill putting birth year for company names, Organization field has birth year

Reported by tomwin...@gmail.com, May 30 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/603.2.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.1.1 Safari/603.2.4

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Steps to reproduce the problem:
We run a website where we accept registrations from users and have noticed an increase in user's submitting our form with a 4-digit year in the company name field, rather than a company name. We recently reproduced the issue with one of our staff member's Chrome browsers. Upon further investigation we discovered that Chrome has, for some unknown reason, stored the staff member's birth year in the Organization field in Chrome. See attached screenshot. Her birth year is 1969. She definitely did not enter the autofill settings directly. 

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Chrome is sometimes storing a user's birthdate year in the Organization field of the autofill settings. We have seen evidence of this happening on a somewhat widespread basis, based on user registrations at our website.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.11.6
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 25.0 r0
 
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Comment 1 by tomwin...@gmail.com, May 30 2017

We're not the only ones seeing this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43727986/chrome-aufofill-bug
Components: -Blink UI>Browser>Autofill
Labels: Needs-Triage-M58
Cc: krajshree@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Thanks for filing the issue...!!

Could you please provide a sample URL to test the issue from TE-end. This will help us in triaging the issue further.

Thanks...!!
Labels: -Needs-Feedback -OS-Mac -Needs-Triage-M58 OS-All
Owner: ma...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
This happened to me as well, but since it's only noticeable once the birth year is filled (as opposed to when it's stored), it's hard to determine which site tricked Chrome's metrics.

mathp to triage.
Same here. Happening since 20. April 2017 or version 58.0.3029

Comment 7 by ma...@chromium.org, May 1 2018

Status: Untriaged (was: Assigned)
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
This bug has an owner, thus, it's been triaged. Changing status to "assigned".
Mergedinto: 864612
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)

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