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To minimize annoyance I’ve set my password manager to generate 16 character random passwords by default. This seems to be the sweet spot for the USA; I don’t recall recently encountering a site with a min >16 or a max <16. Assuming 85 chars that’s ~102 bits of entropy so plenty strong and compatible with almost every site (excepting the rare idiots that ban repeating characters or some subset of symbols).


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