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peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Some of the restrictions are there to try and protect users from themselves. Most people don’t want to put a space in their password so it’s assumed it was a mistake when they do.

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bromine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Most people don’t want to put a space in their password

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- peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Just my general experience, I mean how many passwords from leaked password lists contain spaces? The general understanding of passwords is that they contain no spaces
  
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  - bromine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    I mean how many passwords from leaked password lists contain spaces?
    
    Eh… There are no passwords with spaces in the leaks, because hardly any service allows it? After all, that’s what this whole thread is about.
    
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    peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m sure it’s a chicken and egg situation then, a few services do allow it but I’ve never come across someone using it intentionally outside of people doing it specifically because it’s uncommon
    
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