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yesterday Lemmy was in the list of Proton communities so I joined

today it's not there any more

does anyone know why?

edit: never mind, it's in a different section and I had a brain fart

as you were

Hello!

As per the title, Proton Calendar for Android does not appear to support multiple signed in accounts.

This means I can only get notifications for personal appointments or client meetings, but not both, and the web version never prompts to enable notifications on Android. I am thus liable to miss events on whichever calendar I am not currently signed into.

This is not an acceptable level of support for a professional suite. Is there a roadmap for when this feature will be added?

Is anyone else having this issue? I’ve tried mobile both app and browser and desktop but the option just isn’t there.

I at least appreciate that the very first header is "Why build Proton Wallet?".

from the team:

Hi everyone,

In Proton's 2024 user survey, it seems like AI usage among the Proton community has now exceeded 50% (it's at 54% to be exact). It's 72% if we also count people who are interested in using AI.

Rather than have people use tools like ChatGPT which are horrible for privacy, we're bridging the gap with Proton Scribe, a privacy-first writing assistant that is built into Proton Mail.

Proton Scribe allows you to generate email drafts based on a prompt and refine with options like shorten, proofread and formalize.

A privacy-first writing assistant

Proton Scribe is a privacy-first take on AI, meaning that it:

• Can be run locally, so your data never leaves your device.
• Does not log or save any of the prompts you input.
• Does not use any of your data for training purposes.
• Is open source, so anyone can inspect and trust the code.

Basically, it's the privacy-first AI tool that we wish existed, but doesn't exist, so we built it ourselves. Scribe is not a partnership with a third-party AI firm, it's developed, run and operated directly by us, based off of open source technologies.

Available now for Visionary, Lifetime, and Business plans

Proton Scribe is available as a paid add-on for business plans, and teams can try it for free. It's also included for free to all of our legacy Proton Visionary and Lifetime plan subscribers. Learn more about Proton Scribe on our blog: https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

As always, if you have thoughts and comments, let us know.

Proton Team

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We know that there are quite a few myths and recurring questions, as well as a lot of anxiety about passwords and password managers. And it’s understandable - the more of our data is online, the more anxious we are to protect it.

Here are some articles to answer some of the common questions:

• 🥔 What is hashing and salting and how does it protect your passwords
• ⚠️ How can passwords become compromised?
• 🍏Is it safe to use “readily available” password managers such as Chrome’s and iCloud’s?
• 🔐 Is it safe to have your passwords auto-filled?
• 🎰 How can you be sure that auto-generated passwords are better than the ones you come up with?

We’ve also looked into some of the most common attacks that can compromise your passwords and what to do about them:

• 👊 Brute force attack
• 📖 Dictionary attack
• 🚿 Password spraying attack
• 🌈 Rainbow table attack

We hope you learn something new or share them with your loved ones to help improve their password security :)

Let us know in the comments what other questions you have about passwords and password managers.

The Proton Team

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’ve heard your feedback that many of you would like to quickly add an email AND username to a login item in Proton Pass without having to use custom fields.

Today, we’re happy to share that we’re introducing a dedicated username field for exactly this reason! Rolling out now on all platforms. Simply tap the (+) sign to the left of the email field to reveal the username field.

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

Proton Team

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 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,

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,

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 heard your feedback, and we're happy to announce that you can now secure your Proton Pass with an extra password in addition to your existing Proton account password.

Thank you to our Visionary members who already had a chance to check out this feature!

All Proton Accounts are already secured with strong, robust encryption, but our optional extra password feature allows you to compartmentalize your Proton Pass account. It lets you create an extra password you must enter before you can access your logins and other sensitive information in Pass.

With the extra password enabled, even if an attacker gets a hold of the password to your Proton Account, they cannot access your Pass account unless they also know your extra password. Be sure to store your extra password securely!

This feature is rolling out today for all Lifetime plans, followed by a staged release for Unlimited plans, and available to everyone else over the coming days: https://proton.me/support/pass-extra-password

Let us know what you think! You can also share, vote and discuss ideas on User Voice.

Proton Team

from the team:

Hi everyone,

Thanks to your ongoing feedback, we’re pleased to introduce Secure Link Sharing in Proton Pass for all Proton Pass paid plans.

You asked for a simpler way to share a single item, like streaming passwords, family notes, and credit cards, and now you can! Complete with a configurable expiry.

With Secure Link Sharing, you can share with anyone, even if the recipient doesn’t have a Proton account, http://proton.me/blog/pass-secure-link-sharing

Here’s how it works:

• Easy as copy and paste: Easily generate, update, or delete secure links with just a few clicks in any app.
• You’re in control: Set an expiration date for the link (from one hour to 30 days) or limit the number of accesses.
• Encrypted at all times: Secure links are end-to-end encrypted, ensuring only you and the people you share with can access your data.

This feature is rolling out progressively to all users on paid plans, starting first with Lifetime, Visionary, and Unlimited users. It will be available to everyone in the coming days.

Haven’t signed up yet? Upgrade now and get your first year for $1/month (limited-time offer eligible for new users only).

Let us know what you think! You can also share, vote and discuss ideas 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.

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

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?

Hey everyone, from the team:

Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce the release of Docs in Proton Drive starting today - an end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor and one of the most requested functionalities from the Proton community.

⏳ Docs in Proton Drive starts rolling out today and will be available to everyone over the next few days. Make sure you’re running the latest versions of the Drive desktop and mobile apps.

We built docs in Proton Drive as a joint project with the team from Standard Notes, who shares our core values around privacy and security.

Like all other Proton services, Docs puts you in control of your data. Your documents are only accessible to you and those you share them with, and even your keystrokes and cursor movements are encrypted.

Now, you can create, edit, and collaborate on documents with your family, friends, or colleagues!

With Docs in Proton Drive, you can:

✍️ create new documents and edit them in the Drive web app

🤝 collaborate on documents asynchronously & in real-time

🙋‍♀️ see who else is viewing or editing your documents with live cursors and presence indicators

💬 share feedback using comments and replies

↕️ import and edit .txt / .docx and export in other formats like .pdf, .txt, .md, and .html

💻 access your documents securely from anywhere

All documents created with Docs have a maximum size of 50MB and are automatically saved in your current folder on Proton Drive.

A privacy-respecting alternative to Big Tech

Far too often, online productivity suites require you to accept surveillance as a condition of use. Docs is a milestone in our journey to building a better internet where privacy is the default and another important step towards advancing the mission of the non-profit Proton Foundation.

We're eager to know what you think! Thank you for your continuous support,

Proton Team

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?