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They only require permission to write to the password field, they don't necessarily need to read passwords. Although it does change the work flow for some users.
Many password managers use a “save new” or “update” login credentials feature that watches for newly used passwords and asks if you’d like to save the credentials used.
That’s going to go away if you remove the read access. That said, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Plenty of people will dislike losing that feature, however.
And it could work how it does on Android or similar where the browser has suggestions you can select to fill the field. Originally was for accessibility but it also works for password manger suggestions or any other sutofill. The extension would offer the suggestions to the browser and only the browser would read and actually do the input.
I’m actually game for that idea, it would also make the browser responsible for parsing the many formats of html people use for structuring their input fields.