Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

  • Joël de Bruijn@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    This one time I got this catch22 situation with a service… Turned out password reset in the Android app accepted 32 characters but in the browser less.

    • Fish [Indiana]@midwest.social
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      3 months ago

      Happened to me a couple days ago when resetting a password for Paypal. The browser limit was 20 characters for the 2nd password box but had a higher limit for the first password box.

      Though, it appears they recently modified the form to pop up with an “Enter a shorter password” message. With that being said, PayPal has apparently always had shitty password policies.