Why do so many companies and people say that your password has to be so long and complicated, just to have restrictions?

I am in the process of changing some passwords (I have peen pwnd and it’s the password I use for use-less-er sites) and suddenly they say “password may contain a maximum of 15 characters“… I mean, 15 is long but it’s nothing for a password manager.

And then there’s the problem with special characters like äàáâæãåā ñ ī o ė ß ÿ ç just to name a few, or some even won’t let you type a [space] in them. Why is that? Is it bad programming? Or just a symptom of copy-pasta?

  • jetAEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Plus you can self host if you want the save the $10 a year, but its worth it to support the ecosystem

    • asudox@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes. Exactly. I don’t know why anyone would prefer anything else over Bitwarden if they want a online password manager.