I have only ever used Bitwarden and have been looking at Proton Pass primarily as it integrates unlimited email aliases. I am quite shocked by how this password manager functions for 2 reasons:
I signed up with a proton email (free, private, anonymous), but I must login to Proton Pass with the same password as the email account associated, so if I want a strong password I have to use it for my email too rather than having 1 strong password I have to remember just for my password manager (which is the whole point).
Another thing I cannot wrap my head around is why when I want to login to the browser extension, it opens a tab in my browser to login? Why can't it be logged in, in the extension? This doesn't feel secure to me. It feels wrong.
Am i missing something? Is this actually how it works in Februrary 2025?
I have no choice but to stay with Bitwarden, I will integrate SimpleLogin for aliases. It isn't too bad really as you can buy a year of SimpleLogin, create your aliases and when you do not renew, you get to keep all the aliases and still reply from them. I just wanted to use Proton Pass as it was all integrated under 1 subscription opposed to a Bitwarden and SimpleLogin subscriptions.
This seems like child like logic, how could Proton design it like this? Surely they see a password manager as a bit different from the rest of their products?
Innocent, non tech saavy users who want to commit totally to proton are going to get rekt with this.
And btw, the sign up system to this site is just ridiculous.
jim
I have only ever used Bitwarden and have been looking at Proton Pass primarily as it integrates unlimited email aliases. I am quite shocked by how this password manager functions for 2 reasons:
I signed up with a proton email (free, private, anonymous), but I must login to Proton Pass with the same password as the email account associated, so if I want a strong password I have to use it for my email too rather than having 1 strong password I have to remember just for my password manager (which is the whole point).
Another thing I cannot wrap my head around is why when I want to login to the browser extension, it opens a tab in my browser to login? Why can't it be logged in, in the extension? This doesn't feel secure to me. It feels wrong.
Am i missing something? Is this actually how it works in Februrary 2025?
I have no choice but to stay with Bitwarden, I will integrate SimpleLogin for aliases. It isn't too bad really as you can buy a year of SimpleLogin, create your aliases and when you do not renew, you get to keep all the aliases and still reply from them. I just wanted to use Proton Pass as it was all integrated under 1 subscription opposed to a Bitwarden and SimpleLogin subscriptions.
This seems like child like logic, how could Proton design it like this? Surely they see a password manager as a bit different from the rest of their products?
Innocent, non tech saavy users who want to commit totally to proton are going to get rekt with this.
And btw, the sign up system to this site is just ridiculous.