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Proton Pass Monitor is now available — dark web scanning, password health and inactive 2FA
  • How does Proton decide if a password is weak or not? About half (361 of 678) are considered weak, and I used either Bitwarden or Proton Pass itself to generate a random one. A bunch of the ones I've spot checked have upper, lower, numbers, and symbols and they're still getting flagged as weak. I wish there were a more granular scale because I'd be happy to change the passwords that are truly weak but I'm not going to change hundreds of passwords to a different random string.

  • Proton Pass Monitor is now available — dark web scanning, password health and inactive 2FA
  • This is awesome! I have access to it now and the "reused passwords" feature is helping me find duplicates. For example, some login credentials are for a website, some are for the same app as the website but they appear in Pass as separate. So cleaning those out is super easy now.

    Edit: omg there are so many duplicates! A lot of them are also associated with "different" sites and display as two unique logins, but the two sites differ by http vs https.

  • Thoughts on folders

    There's a button to "sort" folders in the settings which sorts the currently existing folders alphabetically. Then when you create a new folder it gets put at the bottom. Can we just have them sort alphabetically automatically?

    Also when you click sort, it only sorts the top-level folders. The subfolders don't get sorted at all.

    This is the kind of rough-around-the-edges stuff that Proton really needs to sort out before adding more and more services.

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    Any app suggestions for expenditure tracking for splitting travel payments?
  • Huh, that's weird. Are certain features behind a pay wall? I definitely don't have a paid subscription and I'm using it right now to organize a trip. I use it like less than once a year for the last 5 years or so.

    I assumed their business model was using their in-app money transfer feature and like taking a cut or hoping people forget to cash out or something. But you don't even need to do that, you can sync Venmo or even mark transactions as paid in cash

    Edit Oh, I see. I don't think it's required

  • Anyone else find this annoying?

    That the labels for the apps get truncated so you can only read "Proton" plus the first letter of the app. I'm only able to distinguish based on the icons which isn't great because Pass and Drive are similar colors, and Pass and VPN, and Drive and Calendar are similar shapes.

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    Send Tab not working

    I'm signed into Firefox on 4 devices. I can send tabs between all of them except from my work computer to my phone (other direction works). I can see the tabs open on my computer from my phone and tap to open it on my phone, but if I "send tab" from computer to phone, it never arrives.

    I tried signing out on my phone and back in. Didn't work.

    What else can I do to troubleshoot?

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    How can I hold a Zenphone before buying it?

    My wife is in the market for a new phone. Her highest priority is that it's small. She has it narrowed down to a Galaxy S23 or a Zenphone 10. The Samsung is the safe bet, especially since she's upgrading from an S10e. And even so, we can just got to T-mobile and play with one. The Zenphone is a bit riskier as it's unfamiliar. But it's small and gets great reviews. All of the options under "where to buy" have you buy it through, say, Target or Walmart, but it's online only. So she wouldn't be able to play with it until after unboxing and setting it up.

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    Proton Pass Windows App

    Everyone's been complaining about having access to passwords offline. While you could always do that with the Android app (and I assume iOS), you can now do it in Windows.

    Direct link to install file from the screenshot email

    Proton has been killing it lately. I feel like the speed at which they're rolling out new features and products has really picked up over the last year or so.

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    How long should I expect a NAS to last?

    First off, I'd normally ask this question on a datahoarding forum, but this one is way more active than those and I'm sure there's considerable overlap.

    So I have a Synology DS218+ that I got in 2020. So it's a 6 year old model by now but only 4 into its service. There's absolutely no reason to believe it'll start failing anytime soon, and it's completely reliable. I'm just succession planning.

    I'm looking forward to my next NAS, wondering if I should get the new version of the same model again (whenever that is) or expand to a 4 bay.

    The drives are 14 TB shucked easy stores, for what it's worth, and not even half full.

    What are your thoughts?

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    Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox - Open Policy & Advocacy
    blog.mozilla.org Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox – Open Policy & Advocacy

    Browsers are the principal gateway connecting people to the open Internet, acting as their agent and shaping their experience. The central role of browsers has long motivated us to build ...

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    Did the Proton Mail Beta app merge with the regular app?

    I used to have both, because the beta didn't have necessary features like archive but did have threaded convos. Now "both" of my Proton Mail apps are the same app but I have 2 icons. They both open the same thing.

    !

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    Is there a sponsor block situation for Podcasts?

    I'm happy to adopt a new podcast app if it has sponsorblock natively or through a plug-in. Otherwise let me know if there's some other way to make it work. I don't see why it wouldn't work as all of the segments tagged for skipping are crowdsourced which would also work for Podcasts.

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    Prime is adding ads to their streaming service

    I think I might cancel. I'm not watching ads and I'm not going to pay the extra $3/mo to opt out. I don't know if I'd end up paying more than the subscription cost in shipping though....

    !

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    Any *good* keyboard recommations?

    Every year or so I try one or more privacy focused keyboards. I always end up right back on SwiftKey after a couple of weeks because most of the keyboards I try have the same problem: the predictions suck.

    Ok, I get that surveillance is good for predictions. Put another way, predictions are tough without collecting everything everyone types. Is there a best-of-both-worlds keyboard out there? I'd be patient enough to give it some time to learn how I type and get better.

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    How to manage 2FA for Proton account if Proton Pass is my 2FA thing?

    I'm migrating the handful of accounts that I have 2FA set up in from using Authy to using Proton Pass. But I'm stuck on my Proton account itself. Should I keep Authy just for my Proton account and then once I'm in, I can use Pass for the rest of the 2FAs?

    What do you do?

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    Alright Proton, you have one year

    My wife and I both use Bitwarden and share passwords back and forth. We switched from LastPass after the chrome extensions shit the bed, and thankfully before they got hacked.

    Tonight I got her to just make a Pass Plus account under the one year free deal. She voiced her opposition to switching "again". I told her it's not better than Bitwarden yet anyway, but I'll keep an eye on it and let her know when it's better. I'm going to need to make a convincing case to get her to switch.... again.

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    Questions about password sharing in Proton Pass
    1. Can I do it yet?
    2. I assume it's at the vault level. Meaning an entire vault is either shared or not shared, rather than each individual password within. Yes?
    3. Can both (all, but in my case my wife) people with access to the shared vault add/delete/edit all passwords within it?
    4. what's the situation if a paid account is sharing a vault with a free account?
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    On Retirement Savings

    I'm almost 40 and according to the wisdom found everywhere on the internet, I don't have enough saved for retirement. Which worries me because I've been saving for as long as I've had a proper job with access to a retirement vehicle. But also because the internet wisdom doesn't make sense or sound feasible.

    According to what I've read, you're supposed to have:

    • 1x your income when you're 30
    • 3x your income when you're 40
    • 6x at 50
    • 8x at 60
    • 10x when you retire

    I'm almost 40 and I have just barely over 1x saved. So it feels like I'm 10 years behind. However, my income has grown substantially over the course of my 30s, more than doubling. So accounting for growth in income, I do have almost 3x my salary in my late 20s. But similarly, the above advice could be interpreted as needing 6x the income you had when you were 30 by they time you're 40. And by that metric, I'm doing even worse!

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