Please help me vote: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-proton-mail/suggestions/47562803-snooze-function-also-when-conversation-grouping-is

from the team:

Hi everyone,

If you haven’t visited the Proton VPN blog recently, here’s an overview of the posts published in June:

🏷️ The best AirTag alternative solutions to improve your privacy and security. We have previously discussed the privacy risks of AirTag use. Now, we offer a comparative list of alternatives you can use.

🏠 Why WFH employees should use a remote access VPN? In 2023, roughly 40% of workers in the US worked remotely or on hybrid schedules. This arrangement offers benefits to employees and employers, but it also introduces new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Fortunately, this can be easily solved with a remote access VPN.

🗺️ What is IP allowlisting? Learn how this security mechanism works and what its advantages and disadvantages are.

In addition to that, we had a huge update to our server infrastructure which we’ve already surpassed. Proton VPN now has over 6000 servers in 100 countries.

You can follow our blog here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/

from the team:

Hi everyone,

If you haven’t visited our blog recently, here’s an overview of the main Proton Drive announcements from the past three months:

Improvements: ✉️ A new sharing feature provides more security and control. It allows you to share files and folders with a specific email user together with a message for the recipient.

📷 Photo backup is now available on iOS too.

✍️ Last week, we introduced Docs in Proton Drive, making it possible to collaborate in real-time, leave comments, add photos, and store your documents, all in a private environment.

Speaking of sharing, many people use WeTransfer to share files when they are large, as well as WhatsApp when they are small. Here are some things you need to consider if you’re using these two services:

WeTransfer: https://proton.me/blog/is-wetransfer-safe

WhatsApp: https://proton.me/blog/whatsapp-safe-private-photos

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here(we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We have a big month behind us, and in case you haven’t been on Reddit much this June, here are the highlights:

💜 To strengthen our commitment to you and our mission, Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure. Most companies are created to be sold, and they achieve that by placing profit above all other considerations. For most businesses providing “services” to the masses, the easiest way to profit has been to misuse user data and engage in surveillance capitalism to the detriment of society and democracy. At Proton, we have intentionally taken a different path to achieve a more difficult mission where people come before profits.

🔑 With the addition of macOS and Linux app, as well as the Safari browser extension, Proton Pass is now available across all major platforms.

☁️ We’ve added major new functionalities to ProtonDrive, most importantly the option to share files and folders directly with your recipients by entering their email and the long-awaited photo backup functionality on our iOS app.

Among online privacy news, you have been most interested in Google’s DMA compliance plan (spoiler: it’s a sham).

As usual, tips on what you need to pay attention to in order to protect your online privacy were some of the most widely read:

📶 what to do about WiFi pods that can represent a privacy risk

⌨️ how to prevent password spraying attacks

📑 a quick list of things you can do to protect your personal information online

We’ll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you’re all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comments.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’re happy to share that Split Tunnelling is now available on Android TV. Choose which apps are protected by Proton VPN.

Let us know what you think! You also can propose, vote and discuss feature requests on User Voice.

Proton Team

The official guide from Proton, https://protonvpn.com/support/ios-vpn-setup/, requires the use of "OpenVPN Connect" app.

Some inspiration from this guide: https://surfshark.com/blog/how-to-setup-vpn-on-iphone, tells me that I can possibly setup vpn manually on iOS via:

Go to Settings > General > VPN & Device Management > Click on the VPN tab.

Click on Add VPN Configuration.

. .

However, I will need the following information::

• Type: IKEv2.

• Description: Your preferred name of the connection.

• Server: The hostname of the server.

• Remote ID: Copy the hostname you put in the Server line.

• Local ID: Leave it empty.

• User Authentication: Username.

• Username: Put in the service credentials,.

• Password: Put in the service credentials,.

• Proxy: Off.

I'm currently in the middle of moving all of my photos, but I have a couple of issues that have come up.

• The first one has to do with metadata.When I replaced my phone recently, all the photo files were marked as "created" on the same day. They still show in the correct order by datestamp in Google Photos, but everything older than last April is just an undifferentiated mess. Is there a way to get them back in the right order?

• I have thousands of photos. Is there a way to easily see the total number in both Google and Proton to compare that everything is indeed backed up?

• There does not seem to be a way to jump to a particular date in Proton, which makes it arduous to find any photos, even if they were in the right order. Is there something I am missing? Is this feature coming?

These issues prevent me from being able to complete the switch. Can anyone help?

Now that i upgraded to unlimited, I have access to all servers.

can I choose the city for my vpn connection?

protonvpn-cli c --cc US will connect to any US server

protonvpn-cli c US-CA#123 will connect to server #123

what if I want to connect to ANY CA server in US?

I'm on proton unlimited and I turned on Dark Web Monitoring. I figure since i use bitwarden for my password manager, i need to manually sync my passwords so proton can monitor for them. what about more important stuff like adresses, DOB, SSN, etc? proton says here that they can monitor for all that stuff, but how, if they dont have it?

... with one picture:

Thank you!

This is a feature that I miss, along with attachments on calendar events. I was thinking of building something myself using NLP and NER to read an email and extract calendar details from it, but I'd need access to an API to be able to do that and the API is no longer public. Is there any way to either get access to these APIs or some other workaround for this?

Is there a process for exporting everything that's saved in Proton Drive to something local, such as my laptop, or an external hard drive, so that I have that backup in-hand? (Windows 10, Android)

Thank you -

This might sound antithetical to the privacy-by-default standard, but my wife and I currently share our photo rolls with each other (using Google Photos)--everything we take is automatically shared with the other.

Is there anything in Proton Drive/Photos that would allow this? Even if it's only available within a family plan or something. I know that with Drive, we could share a directory and everything in that would be available to the other, but I don't see this as an option in the photos.

Alternatively, I suppose we could both sign in to Proton Drive using a third account just for that purpose, but that's less ideal.

On Android, I noticed two major features that are missing that make it extremely difficult to use the mobile version for me:

1. I can't add inline attachments. This makes communicating with clients and pointing at stuff impossible on mobile.
2. I can't browse existing attachments to view and remove them. This means I have to start my reply all over again and delete the draft if I uploaded the wrong thing, and I can't validate that I did upload the right thing.

Also, pasting into a message body is broken on the beta, but working on stable (the only option is "select all")

There's also no rich text, which is sometimes painful when writing long emails on the go, and it means I can't bold stuff to indicate importance.

I also had issues with sent emails from drafts where a draft was created on mobile, finished on the web and sent, the mobile client will show as if I had sent the unfinished mobile draft, which sent me into a panic last night haha.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

As you may know, Proton VPN has repeatedly proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To make Proton VPN’s anti-censorship features even more accessible, we made it possible to log in to the Android app without creating an account. Now you can log in and use the Proton VPN Android app for free without entering any credentials (i.e. you can “continue as guest”):

Together with the constant expansion of our infrastructure (over 6000 servers in close to 100 countries), we believe that this will help our privacy-first VPN service reach those who need it the most more efficiently than ever.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team

from the team:

Hi everyone,

This year, over 60 countries — home to half of the world's population — will hold national elections. As we've seen time and time again, VPNs have proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To ensure people can access accurate information before they cast their vote, we have decided to provide free Proton VPN servers in countries with a history of censorship or political interference in the weeks leading up to the elections: https://protonvpn.com/blog/free-servers-before-elections. Today, we’re expanding this list to 5 more countries.

The servers will be switched from paid to free for the period of the election.

List of countries holding elections this year where Proton VPN will provide free servers:

• Rwanda
• Syria (newly added)
• Venezuela
• Algeria
• Jordan (newly added)
• Brazil (newly added)
• Mozambique
• Somaliland
• Mauritius
• Uzbekistan (newly added)
• Sri Lanka
• Tunisia (newly added)

List of countries that already held elections (or are about to hold them), where Proton VPN provided free servers:

• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Pakistan
• Senegal
• Turkey
• Togo
• Chad
• Mauritania (free servers currently available)

Since we launched Proton VPN Observatory, we have documented spikes in Proton VPN signups in real-time (most recently in Kenya), making it an effective measurement of anti-censorship activity in response to various crises worldwide.

We believe this, along with expanding our server infrastructure to include over 6,000 servers in close to 100 countries and making Proton VPN more accessible to users globally, will help make the use of the internet more free and unrestricted globally.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team

I just had few basic question about the iOS automatic upload for photos

First will it upload all albums or can I choose which albums it will upload?

Second will deleting a picture from drive delete in photos or vise versa, I’m assuming they’re independent of each other apart from the automatic upload

3 password managers at same time 🧐 :

My older version of a Firefox browser remember most of my passwords (I am ok how it works), but some important passwords are also stored in KEEpass and not in Firefox. Then there is a ProtonPass which can import both Firefox CSV and KeePass XML.

Problem with import and synchronization of these managers is that the

1. Pass is not made to deduplicate the imported data (some imported logins may already be in vaults), which requires user to delete Pass logins prior importing a .csv file (importing because file contains more up to date logins).

2. import does not contain 2FA secrets nor aliases (aliases deleted in Pass can not be restored into Pass at the time of writing - June 2024).

Firefox and Proton Pass - PROS and CONS (as of June 2024):

Quality of suggested logins:

⛔️ Firefox (old ver.) suggests all passwords saved across whole website incl. its subdomains which is messy

✅ Pass: suggests only passwords for a present page (not subdomains) = good

⛔️ Pass: does not automaticaly complete/suggest login when typing into username field and the list of saved logins is not alphabetically sorted by the username.

Speed:

✅ Firefox: shows saved logins instantly

⛔️ Pass: 1 second delay of a Proton Pass drop down menu with login username suggestions comparing to Firefox which loads immediately and gives impression that it loads even before login page finished loading. Both password managers loads at same time on user mouse click into the login field. Delay of a ProtonPass happens only when the suggestion menu should appear automatically upon loading a login page.

Registration form suggestions:

✅ Firefox: suggests previously used usernames/emails when typing, which is fine

🆗 Pass: does suggest anything when i type, as already mentioned. When I click, it suggests main ProtonMail address and allows generating unique alias which is very important key feature

🆗 Pass: password generating box shows non-important confirmation of a successfully copied password, which hides after like 2 seconds, making impossible to read the next form field during that time, which is annoying.

Login form suggestions:

⛔️ Pass: does not offer any login suggestion on a Basic HTTP Auth (.htaccess password protection of a directory) forms (popup) of mine (site: ILF admin, C*A/my)

Other:

⛔️ Pass: in Firefox i think it sometimes gets logged out requring to spend time re-login which may require 2FA auth from other device or other password manager.

✅ Pass: editing, grouping of passwords seems a bit better than Firefox

✅ Pass: Integrated 2FA

✅ Pass: Pass monitor in paid plan, password strength/leak indication

PROS vs CONS. What to do?

ProtonPass is a bit slower than Firefox, yet it has its advantages - email alias generating, 2FA....

SimpleLogin browser extension can be used for Proton aliases and if you do not need 2FA, it may be easier to stay with just Firefox, which is enough safe manager since I am already making backups of a Firefox (incl. passwords - which are also synced E2EE to the Mozilla cloud https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/sync#w_is-it-secure).

Other option is to use Pass only for aliases and 2FA and inside its General settings, disable passwords saving and filling, letting Firefox do this job.

Third manager (for example KeePassXC) can serve as a backup, it can also import exports of Pass and Firefox. I guess it would be good to backup any password manager (incl. Pass) data regularly on schedule.

What are your suggestions/feedback regarding this?