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Isn’t that, like, the whole point of a password manager?
automatic auto fill is where your u/p is filled when you load the page with no interaction required
requiring an interaction to fill the u/p means you expect there to be a login box to fill, which can mitigate certain kinds of compromise
I would guess so, although the real purpose is likely to keep your passwords somewhere so that you can find them when you need them. I'm not sure why autofill is bad since your password manager generally already knows which password works on which website.
If an attacker compromises the page or does a man in the middle and injects a form that isn't displayed, it can trick your password manager to auto fill your login information and then send it anywhere. But that's just one vector and if an attacker has compromised the server, there are a number of attack vectors they could take.
Yeah, if an attacker can modify your page it doesn't matter if you auto-fill, fill on request or copy/enter the credentials manually - you are fucked either way.