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Edit: @Successful_[email protected] solved it. It says "one special character". Not "at least one".

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do they think no copy paste is safer?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Because if you disable browser autocomplete, what's obviously going to happen is that everyone will have a text file open with every single one of their passwords in so that they can copy-paste them in. So prevent that. But what happens if you prevent that is that everyone will choose terrible, weak passwords instead. Something like September2025! probably meets the 'complexity' requirement...