I followed the link, entered my username and was about to enter my password.
This is the problem demanding a real solution, not some cosmetic change around the URL. Your browser should be entering the credentials.
The computer is not fooled by an ugly URL. If the domain doesn't match, no password for you. If the protocol is different from the one you used the first time (https hopefully), no password for you.
Yet instead, we get autocomplete="off" and a butchered URL bar.
This is the problem demanding a real solution, not some cosmetic change around the URL. Your browser should be entering the credentials.
The computer is not fooled by an ugly URL. If the domain doesn't match, no password for you. If the protocol is different from the one you used the first time (https hopefully), no password for you.
Yet instead, we get autocomplete="off" and a butchered URL bar.