I had 2 facebook accounts. I deactivated one. In chrome I went into settings/advanced/manage saved passwords and deleted that username/password from the facebook entry. I closed Chrome, reopened and went to facebook. I go to log in and the username/password is still showing as an autofill along with the other that I did not delete.
I came here to make this post and in the title as I was starting a new thread I mistakenly typed an “F” as the first letter. A dropdown appeared where I could see the titles of the other 2 threads I started that began with letter “F”. So I went back into settings chose to delete all content since beginning of time. I cleared browsing history,cache, cookies, passwords, autfill form data, content licenses. After I did that I ran CCleaner and chose to delete everything from every browser.
I go back to Facebook and when I go to login, both emails are still listed in the username. I came here and typed “F” under title and both threads that started with “F” still autofill. WTF?
Chrome encourages logging into a Google account to save settings and bookmarks. Is it possible that you are deleting them autofill history locally but it is being imported again from a logged in account? Try logging on and then clearing the history and see if it still happens.
ETA: If this is the case, it seems you can stay logged in and turn off syncing autofill history by going to Settings –> Advanced Sync Settings (under the “Sign In” heading) –> Select “Choose what to sync” from the drop down –> Uncheck “Autofill”.
ETA 2: After looking through the settings in Chrome, it looks like you can clear the autofill history associated with your account on the Google Dashboard (https://www.google.com/settings/chrome/sync?hl=en-US). My personal preference would be disconnecting the account, though… I’m not privacy nut, but I’d prefer that Google not have a list of my passwords, history, bookmarks, etc. stored on their servers.
Yep. That was the answer. I had to log out (disconnect) from Chrome. Once I did that and cleared history, autofills were gone. When I logged back in they returned. I guess being imported from my android phone that is linked to my gmail address.
The concept is ok I guess. All your info across devices. The downside would be logging in at a public computer and forgetting to log out.
Facebook on the other hand…:rolleyes: Their privacy settings seem deliberately confusing. If there is a link from your FB page to permanently delete an account it takes a smarter man than me to find it. There is a tiny easy to miss link to deactivate it. But that just puts it in a hibernation state. I had to do a google search to find how to permanently delete it.