this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
13 points (100.0% liked)

Proton

7022 readers
1 users here now

Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I just wanted to sign into Mastodon on my phone in my browser but couldn't autofill in the login data from Proton Pass. It had worked about an hour ago but suddenly doesn't work anymore, regardless of which website or which browser I use. I reinstalled Proton Pass and checked that Autofill is on but still nothing.

Any ideas? Thank you!

top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I find that Proton Pass isn't great at detecting username/password fields and sometimes just fails miserably for seemingly no reason.

I've had your issue before but it just started working again without any interaction by me. My only suggestion is standard stuff like rebooting the phone/uninstall-reinstall/etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it suddenly started working again for no apparent reason. I only recently moved all my passwords to Proton Pass and have been happy with it so far. I hope this doesn't become a recurring issue, I'm not in the mood and don't have the spoons atm to switch to a different app 🤞

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am personally not happy with proton pass on Android in general. Because of a password manager I no longer know passwords by heart and I've had multiple occasions where Proton Pass acted as if there was no password saved for a certain account. Not just autofill, also when I open the app and looked for it manually it wasn't there. Not sure this is similar to your experience, but the only 'solution' for me has been to go on my desktop or laptop and copy paste the password into an effing email. The first time I thought it was me but I think this happened like 5 times now, so I'm ditching the service when I get around to it. Luckily they've made it as easy to export data (I believe and hope) as it was to import it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] lka1988 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

KeePass is definitely the way to go here. It's been around for a few decades at this point.

KeePass in general works well with Syncthing, too. I use multiple derivatives (OG KeePass, KeePassXC, KeePass2Android, KeePassium) on several devices, all linked via Syncthing, and haven't had any issues. It's faster than using a single database on Google drive, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks I'm gonna check it out but what so far has kept me from Foss with stuff like this is that I want it to work on multiple devices and self hosting stuff seems rather technical compared to out of the box stuff like proton pass. Used bitwarden before and I'm inclined to move back there.

[–] lka1988 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is a bit technical, but it's good learning experience as well. I don't really trust cloud services with storing my passwords, so I use Syncthing (including a central server at home) to keep the database updated between devices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh that's super annoying. That fortunately hasn't happened to me yet. I only recently moved all my passwords to Proton Pass and so far everything has worked well until today. Don't know what that was, now it's working again. I'll wait and see if this was a one-time thing (I hope so).