For those wanting to play this as a game, there is this wonderfully fiendish website.

https://neal.fun/password-game/

Rule 13 Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.

My absolute favourite is when your password is too long but they don't tell you that, I guess because they weren't expecting it. It only causes a hitch when you later try to login and it doesn't let you ....

Sorry, that password is already in use

BIG red flag. Abort. Abort.

Also I love when they only support certain special characters. So the psuedo random noise created by my password generator won't work until I curate out the unsupported characters.

I too love the Password game! Please save Paul! I truly care about him! ^Truly!^

(Sorry, I sometimes like to post really bad comments...)

I've seen this but with a final message of "Sorry, that password is already in use by user about2getOwned@gmail.com."

Fun fact: password controls like this have been obsolete since 2020. Standards that guide password management now focus on password length and external security features (like 2FA and robust password encryption for storage) rather than on individual characters in passwords.

Sorry, you must have a special character. Oh... Not THAT special character, it has to be a special special character, that one isn't valid. Ah, no, that one's too long. It should be shorter. It needs to be between 11 and 11.5 characters.

Half the time I now just enter random nonsense until it lets me create an account. Then, when I want to access a website/app again, I just 'forget' my password and reset it to some other random nonsense.

That password is already in use by user 'gigachad'.

that password is already in use

lmao, "security" moment

The worst one is when it only supports up to like 16 characters but doesn't tell you so it will only use the first 16 characters and ignore the rest. The next time you need to enter it and get the 64 character password from your password manager it will just say it incorrect and you're left with no idea on why it's wrong.

“Sorry, that password is already in use” ruins it for me. That’s not a realistic message to receive.

Maybe “Your password cannot be one you’ve used previously”.

Password can't exceed 32 characters

Garbage

My favorite, though, is:

types in password "Password incorrect" goes to reset password "please enter a new password" types in password "your new password cannot be the same"

Looks like someone's been playing the password game https://neal.fun/password-game/

The worst part is that if they know that password is already in use.... then they aren't storing their passwords appropriately.