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Add spaces, for the love of god! Spaces are symbols as well, and are easier to read, type and remember...

And are often disallowed by services (more often than special characters are in my experience).

Ain't that the truth. I once was locked out of my work systems for a day or two while IT investigated, turns out a trailing space at the end was...not disallowed explicitly, but would result in a broken account everywhere but your laptop.

I had one weird login where the limitations were done on the input field (but not enforced on the backend), so if I typed my password in, it didn't work, but if it autofilled with a password manager, it did work.

I had the opposite happen to me. The password length was enforced on the frontend by JavaScript, which the password manager bypassed. The backend recieved the whole string though, so I could only log in by pasting in the password, which got truncated by the client side JavaScript. Drove me nuts until I figured it out.

never really meet one, at least not in the recent years...

Why not backspaces, too?

A space can be typed quite easily, while a backspace cannot.

That said, even systems which do not accept spaces will accept them as long as they are immediately followed by an equal amount of backspaces. /s

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