2019, Chrome 76, approach to autocomplete off

Question

There are are few posts out there about this. You spend hours going through each answer, testing, reading comments, to find that there is no solution. What have you done in

Answer 1

As gasman's answer explains, both the autofill and autocomplete features must be disabled, which doesn't seem possible on a single input.
The only working solution I've found is to setting autocomplete="off" on the input and add hidden fake inputs before the real input that fool autofill, like so: