It looks like the problem is coming from type="password" in:
<input name="password" type="password" class="input-text" id="pass" data-bind="attr: {autocomplete: autocomplete}" data-validate="{required:true}" autocomplete="off">
Maybe the code is coming from
\vendor\magento\module-customer\view\frontend\web\template\authentication-popup.html
But when I edit that file there is no change on the site. Does anyone know how this works?