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My impression from when I've encountered this is that it is an attempt to repel bots.
Speculating/knowing about the reason doesn't help when I'm confronted with having to input the password
*6mA*P7CCuVyHo8kh%x34!63wm23&uhzSMY3Xy3$*8^%7j$VeH^7hmm bots don't use keyboard or mouse copy & paste so I don't see how that makes sense?
my impression is this is just stupid product managers who don't understand why it's a bad idea to force all your users to manually type out their passwords or email addresses just because of the 0.1% of people who would copy and paste one with an error in.