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!
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I find that Proton Pass isn’t great at detecting username/password fields and sometimes just fails miserably for seemingly no reason.
I’ve had your issue before but it just started working again without any interaction by me. My only suggestion is standard stuff like rebooting the phone/uninstall-reinstall/etc.
Yeah it suddenly started working again for no apparent reason. I only recently moved all my passwords to Proton Pass and have been happy with it so far. I hope this doesn’t become a recurring issue, I’m not in the mood and don’t have the spoons atm to switch to a different app 🤞
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
