This has happened more than a few times for me, a site I’m on will suddenly not accept my correct password, forcing me to reset it, only for it to say “new password can’t be the same as the old password” when I try it as the new one, if it knew the password was the old password, why not just let me login in the first place?
Edit: I think most of the answers here are misunderstanding the question, I know for certain I’m using the correct password at first, once it forces me to reset, I type in the SAME password to check if this situation is happening and that’s when it says “new password can’t be the same as the old password”, I then give up and make a new one cuz what else can I do. This has happened about a dozen times over my time on the internet
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There could be two reasons for that. First, you kept making some silly mistake when trying to enter your password. Maybe you had caps lock on. Maybe a key on your keyboard was sticky and not pressing down properly. When you reset your password, you don’t repeat this mistake and enter what is your correct password.
Second, it might be a previous password from before. Let’s that you have your first password. For whatever reason, you can’t remember that password at the moment or are not typing it correctly, so you reset and create password no. 2. Later, you screw up with password no. 2, so you go to create password no. 3. However, since your mind works in consistent matter and your passwords follow a general trend, you try to make password no. 1 your new password no. 3. The site won’t let you because it is an old password.
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