For context, in my password manager I had tried formatting some of my entrees so that it would contain the usual username and password, but instead of creating whole new entrees for the security questions for the same account, I just added additional fields in the same entree in order to keep things a little more tidy.
I was not expecting that doing so would result in later being shaken down by Proton to pay even more money just to access the same few bytes of fucking text I had trusted them with. This is sleazy as fuck and I am dropping these idiots entirely.
Bitwarden offers this feature for free using custom fields, although 2FA is paid unless you self-host IIRC
Vaultwarden is a great self hosted bitwarden clone
I haven’t personally hosted it myself but I’ve heard it’s pretty good, also worth vouching for KeePass based on my time with it
KeepassXC + Syncthing has worked fine for me for a few years. Sure, it’s a bit of a hassle and not exactly perfect, but nothing is. I have control over my data and I don’t have to pay anyone anything, that’s enough for me.
Also, tasty entrees 🤤
If you don’t host your own data, you don’t own it.
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I use KeepassXC with rclone, and that works well too.
Good tip, thanks
This is the route I’m taking. Keepass has always been tried and true. I switched from Keepass to Proton Pass for a while, and in more ways than this one complaint it has been very much a downgrade.
Proton does not know how to make quality software.
Hassle? What hassle? Adding a new device to the syncthing swarm and adding the folder where your database is stored?
I also have been using KeepassXC and syncthing for years. Best thing I have ever done!
I use a VPN and even if I allow local wifi sharing it messes with syncthing’s connections. It’s not a perfect system.
I tried protonmail not for the privacy purpose but just to have a normal web email client.
After wasting an hour before finding out you can’t disable the “sent from protonmail” footer without manually deleting it in each draft you make, I said screw it and deployed my own email server with stalwart lol.
It’s receive only because outgoing SMTP is a pain to make reliable these days and my ISP blocks outgoing SMTP anyway, but for everything else I now use Thunderbird.
What do you mean? It’s a slider setting you can turn on or off individually for each address (if you want to keep it one one but not others). It’s under identity and addresses.
IIRC free users don’t have that option.
Ah, that makes sense. Always blows my mind when people complain about free tier limitations, especially from companies that don’t make money from selling your data.
Yeah I wanted to complain about it, but when the service is free I don’t have any right to. I will say that I upgraded to paid and still ran into a limitation. On Gmail, I use the Snooze and Schedule Send options a lot. In Gmail I have scheduled financial reminders for literally years in the future. Proton only lets you schedule 90 days into the future, that’s it. I gotta wonder about the logic of that. At the very least, let me schedule messages until the end of my subscription.
Yeah I’m on free tier(evaluating proton as a whole) and I don’t see this option in my mobile app. I’ll have to look at the web to see if it’s there…but I doubt it
*Edit, checked the web client. Found the option, but it’s a mail plus feature, so I can’t disable it as a free user.
I’m not sure what all the limitations are for the free tier. I’m on the Unlimited plan, if you’re wondering if an option is available on the paid plans feel free to ask me and I’ll check for you.
It might have changed but there is a setting for it now.
Pretty annoying that I’m just learning setting no signature did nothing since they added a second signature option for when sending from mobile and enabled it by default.
I have always hated this, the signature settings need to be unified. Why would I ever want a different signature to alert people that I am on my phome. Gmail allows ios to match their web signature but not android.
Sent from my fucking phone.
I know someone that signed up for an account with them, they froze it immediately for suspicious activity. He does nothing with that IP address, reads, social media, that’s it. No way to get off the shit list without giving up personal information like a phone number and or alternate email and no guarentee that would fix it.
Their IP was on a blacklist from some shady company for some strange reason. But other companies let you write the company and plead your case, proton does not.
They further suspended a bunch of accounts based on some half baked unproven accusations by the government(s) if I recall.
They aren’t trustworthy, they will give you up at the first sign of friction it appears.
That happened to me. I wasn’t even on a VPN when I created my first and only Proton account, and within minutes they restricted it so I couldn’t send any mail. They said I would have to upgrade to a paid account if I wanted to send mail.
I would never trust Proton after that. I’m just glad they immediately restricted my account instead of waiting until I’d switched everything over.
Check your ip against the lists of blacklists, there are sites that do it directly from the search page, there are a few dozen blacklists supposedly for spam and the like.
I suspect israel critics get dropped on them. A brazillian firm did the one we found.
Interesting theory and I’ve definitely made posts and comments critical of Israel. I’ve switched ISPs since creating that Proton account and I wonder if they’d restrict me again (not going to try though).
Try 2FAS (Auth and Pass): https://2fas.com/ This is a great service!
OMG I thought I was the only child of Mr and Mrs Upgrade, of Upgrade street, Upgrade! Maybe we’re related?
Pretty sure the warning signs were apparent when the CEO submitted to Trump. it just his “personal beliefs” and not representative of the company. Right.
The CEO was lobbying for online privacy by publicly shaming the Democrats. He was doing his job.
Wait the Democrats respond to public shaming? At this point I thought they got off on it. He was doing his job but, he was kissing fascist ass just like Google, Microsoft, and Apple have not lobbying for privacy.
Why is it that just doing their job excuse or just following orders tends to be associated with questionable actions as opposed to positive ones? It’s starting to seem like a red flag if those two phrases get used for an action.
He made a mean tweet about the Democrats, it’s not like he loaded bullets into ICE guns.
Complimentary remarks to Republicans depicting them as a party open to being privacy respecting and respect for the rule of law. Took the Joe Rogan hand book of trying to sane wash the Republicans and downplay concerns regarding them while trying to come off as moderate.
And it aged terribly. Someone who went to Harvard and spent significant time in the US wasn’t blind to what those way less educated than him saw when it came to the direction the US was headed towards before Trump officially took office.
He was rightfully criticized because Trump never hid his intentions during the election, so people were not impressed by the pandering like all the current tech bros part of the Trump inner circle.
Am I the only one that read the situation as he could only get GOP folks to be receptive that day? Like if it would have been dems it would have been the other way around. My wife went to DC to lobby for an issue and tried both parties. It’s a thing they do. He never specifically said he actually preferred one over the other, just that he got the response. I’m more interested in what the specific lobbying effort was. I am suspicious of them only because they are lobbying in US in the first place and because I’m suspicious of everything at this point. There was no damning info in the reporting on this issue.
Yeah, I tried to be charitable and assume they were just ignorant of how bad Trump is. I should have known better.
I don’t think that’s where entrees go.
Hypothetically it should have. Those were additional fields that I added to the main account login entree, in order to keep all the relevant data in one place.
Strange, I keep my entrees covered in the fridge and take them out about one hour before guests show up.
Bitwarden ! Host it yourself.
Vaultwarden 😎
Will host that myself eventually, but a little scared by hardware prices. All I have is a desktop PC with a 700W PSU, probably unsuitable as a home lab.
I’ve been homelabbing for a couple years now, and it’s still just a desktop PC with a 450W PSU, it even has a Jellyfin server with some light transcoding. I’d highly recommend trying out a server you don’t mind breaking and play around, you’d be surprised what you can do!
??? I use Proton mail and I never saw something like this. Account with nick, other mail, password and go.
It’s in Proton Pass. When you create an account entree, there is an option to create additional fields that you can name and fill out, kind of like multiple notes in one file. Somehow I was able to create those fields on my account just fine, but then to be given access to that data it turned out that I had to upgrade my account. In other words they duped me into entering data at no extra cost, but then charged me to access that same data later on.
That’s scummy as fuck.
I guarantee they do that on purpose just like all other scams that make you invest your time before telling you you need to pay.
I don’t use it. Mail is fine, I don’t need other than this. For all other apps, there are tons of FOSS alternatives out there.
Bitwarden FTW
Because a bunch of dementia patients started leaving 1 star review as they kept on forgetting their passwords
Can you still access the info by hitting edit? It was possible last time I checked. Even so, yeah, I’m thinking a transition to bitwarden is not a bad idea.
According to other comments in this thread, Bitwarden does similar crap. I went back to Keepass.
As for the data, luckily it was for an account I don’t need or use anymore, so I just deleted everything and moved on.
Use keepassXC instead. You don’t need any kind of cloud for a password manager. Keepass database can by synchronized between devices with syncthing. Safer and free forever
Have you considered upgrading to Proton Lux™?
What tier do you pay for now? Did you ever downgrade your tier?
I am on Proton Plus, $4.99 per month, which I now see does not appear to extend to Pass benefits. I’ve switched password managers already, and am going to be moving everything else over to other apps and services and cancelling my Proton accounts entirely.
That’s fair, if something doesn’t work for you move on. I’m pretty happy with proton for now. Eventually I’ll try self hosting.
