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Also, the chance that a site will refuse a strong random password is directly correlated to the importance of the account. Case and point, the appointment site for my barber happily takes a 30+ character randomly generated password. My old bank would not allow you to have a password longer than 12 characters and only recognized 4 special characters. That is why they are my old bank.


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