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!

  • @huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•11 days ago

    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.

      • Lka1988English
        2•11 days 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.

      • @huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•11 days ago

        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.

        • Lka1988English
          2•11 days 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.

    • @coffeepaws@leminal.spaceOPEnglish
      2•10 days 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).