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by siegfried-en 1712 days ago
This has been like this for at least a couple years now. Struck me as bit odd in the beginning but it doesn't really improve the chances of brute forcing too much (which is hard on Google login anyways). And potentially saves so much time and server resources
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Why do you suggest it saves time and server resources? Because people are likely to miscaptialize the first character of their password?
On mobile, the keyboard will auto-capitalise the first letter sometimes