from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’re back with the most popular blogs from last month:

💜 We have joined forces with r/StandardNotes! In the coming months, we hope to find ways to make Standard Notes more easily accessible to the Proton community.

🎭 In case you missed it, Proton now alerts you if an online service you’re registered for with a Proton Mail address has had a data breach or has been hacked. In the meantime, in early May, we have also implemented a similar service for your Proton Pass aliases and passwords.

🔑 Speaking of passwords, passkeys have remained a big topic: we’ve discussed the Big Tech’s implementation of them, as well as whether they’ll completely replace passwords in the future.

As usual, you were interested in practical matters too, like: 📱 how to create an email account without the phone number verification, 💧 what to do if your data leaks, and 🧩 how to protect yourself from social engineering.

We’ve also analyzed several services’ privacy practices closely. You have been most interested in how Whatsapp treats your photos, and the security of Google Chrome’s password manager and iCloud Keychain.

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 below.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’re happy to announce that the 2nd highest-voted feature request is rolling out this week — Proton Pass Monitor.

Proton Pass Monitor keeps your data safe with dark web monitoring, checking for weak and reused passwords, scanning for accounts with inactive 2FA, and providing easy access to Proton Sentinel.

You can also check out the following support articles:

https://proton.me/support/what-is-pass-monitor https://proton.me/support/how-to-use-pass-monitor

Let us know what you think! As always, we appreciate your support and feedback.

— Proton Team

P.S. We also want to give a huge shoutout to u/Alfondorion who (along with many others) suggested the name.

It may take a little time for Proton Pass Monitor to become available on all platforms, thanks for your patience!

from the team:

Hi, everyone,

If you haven’t visited our blog recently, here’s an overview of the Drive-related articles published in the last three months:

➕Thinking about a spring cleaning for your devices? We can help.

📦 Data backup is vital for businesses and individuals alike: In case something happens to your primary computer, you always have a copy of your data to fall back on. To make sure you’re backing up properly, we recommend following the 3-2-1 backup rule.

👪 Whether it’s photos or documents, it’s always good to know how to share files safely.

❌ Still using Dropbox? We’ve taken a closer look at their privacy policy and their security so far, and we recommend that you delete your account.

⏩ Finding it difficult to leave Google Drive behind? Here’s a tip how to provide additional protection to your files there. And once you’re ready to delete your files there, here are tips to make sure they are deleted: https://proton.me/blog/how-to-delete-files-from-google-drive.

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 below.

from the team:

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

▶️ Best YouTube alternatives There’s no doubt that YouTube has forever changed the online entertainment landscape. But your YouTube habits are profiled and combined with your search history, Gmail metadata, photo metadata, how you use your Android phone, and much more to profile you and target you with ever more personalized ads. So, we did some research into what other services you could use as a replacement for it.

🎦 Open source Zoom alternatives that respect your privacy Zoom became a household name during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the confidence in the platform wavered in the face of privacy and security concerns, so we provided a list of privacy-first alternatives.

⚙️What is private DNS and should you use it with a VPN? We look at what private DNS is, how it can help protect your privacy, and how to enable it on your device, but also why you shouldn’t use it with VPN.

Additionally, many of you have been interested in our initiative to provide free VPN to users in countries with upcoming elections, particularly in countries with a history of online censorship. Make sure to also check our predictions for this year regarding this subject. You can follow our blog here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/

From the team:

Hi, everyone,

We’ve had quite a few big updates during the month behind us - here they are in case you missed them:

🎭 Now you can create hide-my-email aliases directly in the Proton Mail web app (reddit link)

🖥️ The Proton Mail macOS & Windows apps have been released, with the Linux app becoming available in beta

🔑 r/ProtonPass now supports Passkeys on all platforms

In addition to announcements related to Proton’s services, you’ve found the following articles interesting, too:

🔐 What is a passkey? - This new way to secure your online accounts has been the talk of the town lately.

🗑️How to delete files from Google Drive - Our blog is known to be frequented by users in the process of de-Googling their lives and reducing their digital footprint.

👣 Speaking of the digital footprint, we’ve also published an article about this term, how you can avoid leaving traces, and even how you can make them beneficial.

🍏 Your iPhone is not as private as you might think - Apple’s marketing team has built a powerful association between the iPhone and privacy. But Apple’s lawyers are telling a different story.

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 below.

From the team:

Hi everyone,

We are thrilled to announce that our third most-voted feature request on User Voice — passkeys support — is now available for everyone in Proton Pass on all platforms!

Passkeys provide a secure and convenient alternative to passwords, and you can now save, store, and edit passkeys in Proton Pass.

📣Read the full announcement

📚Learn about passkeys

As always, thank you for your continued support and let us know what you think.

— Proton Team

EDITS:

• The updated Firefox extension will be available soon.
• PIN: 3 failed attempts will result in being logged out to prevent brute force attacks.
• Subscribers can enable Proton Sentinel which helps to prevent account takeovers, even when an attacker has stolen your password.
• Biometric unlock will also be available soon for Windows and Mac desktop apps.

from the team:

Hi everyone,

We’re happy to announce that we’ve now launched the Proton Mail macOS and Windows apps out of beta.

Thanks to your valuable feedback, we’ve added more than 20 new features and fixes from the release of the first beta versions of the apps.

The new Proton Mail desktop apps are here to make your private inbox faster and more productive with:

🌓 Desktop-optimized design that syncs with light & dark mode

📆 Integrated Proton Calendar in app switcher

🎭 Events and hide-my-email aliases in side-panel

🔔 Dedicated app notifications

♻️ Automatic updates for the latest features & security improvements

➕ And much more

🐧If you’re a Linux user, you can join the desktop app beta here:

https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app

With the release of the desktop apps, Proton Mail is now available on all major desktop and mobile platforms, offering over 100 million people worldwide a private alternative to Big Tech, regardless of their device.

➡️ Learn more and get the desktop apps here: https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-desktop-app

Access to the desktop apps is included in all Proton premium plans. Free plans come with a 14-day trial.

As always, we welcome your feedback and we’re grateful for your continuous support.

Stay safe,

Proton team

From the team:

Hi everyone,

We've been a bit quiet with announcements since the start of the year, with most of our efforts focused on scaling up our server infrastructure to stay ahead of the demands of our rapidly growing supporter base.

This has included adding 14 new countries to support voters in countries with a history of censorship or political interference in the weeks leading up to their election, as well as working to reduce blocking in censored countries, decreasing CAPTCHAs, and increasing download speeds, most notably in France and Germany where we have recently upgraded the last of our 1Gbps servers to 10Gbps. On top of that, we've also added over 700 new servers across multiple countries since the year started, including over 100 in the USA, and more than 50 in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, each: https://protonvpn.com/vpn-servers/](https://protonvpn.com/vpn-servers

Overall quality, reliability, and performance across all platforms will continue to be a key focus area for us in the coming months.

As some of you have already seen from the Android beta release, we have also been working on an improved user interface to make Proton VPN better for you. Expect to see that out for Android and Windows in the coming weeks, with our other platforms to follow. And if you have feedback for us, please share it in the comments!

But we have also been working away on some of the new features that you have all been asking for. Here is an update from the development team on some of them:

• Apple TV support: Work has started, and we're aiming for a summer 2024 release.

• Stealth protocol on the Windows app: We've made a lot of progress on this and should have this out in the summer of 2024 as well.

• Split Tunneling for the Android TV app: We're aiming for late spring/early summer 2024, to be followed by a split tunneling solution for our macOS app.

• More for Linux! We just released the Advanced Kill Switch for Linux ( https://protonvpn.com/support/permanent-kill-switch/ ), but there is more to come. Keep an eye out over the next few weeks for a beta of our next feature - Wireguard support.

• IPv6: Thanks to everyone who helped us with multiple rounds of testing. We're looking to have this out in a summer/autumn 2024 timeframe after the four previously mentioned items are out the door.

As always, thank you for your support and feedback. We wouldn't be able to do it without you.

Stay safe,

Proton Team

From the team:

Hi, everyone!

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

🤔 Wondering whether your VPN is working at all? You can learn how to check that here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/blog-how-to-check-if-vpn-working/

♥️ Looking for a soulmate online? Unfortunately, many dating apps, like Tinder, Grindr, or Bumble, can present significant privacy risks. Here's what you need to consider when using them: https://protonvpn.com/blog/how-to-stay-private-on-tinder-grindr-bumble/

🐌 Does every VPN really slow down your internet connection? Well, yes, but you can keep it to a minimum: https://protonvpn.com/blog/vpn-slow-internet/

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

From the team:

Hi, everyone!

We’ve got another exciting month behind us. We’ve already shared some of the most popular updates with you here on Reddit:

🍏The analysis of Apple’s approach to DMA compliance,

⏩ Our guide on how to migrate from soon-to-be-defunct Skiff Mail,

📣 Major r/ProtonPass announcements: the new Pass Business plans and the Windows app, and

🏰 What makes Proton more resilient than other providers in the online privacy space.

However, that’s not the entire story, and we’ve had a few others that have sparked a lot of interest:

⏩ Skiff alternatives - Skiff didn’t only provide email but also a calendar, cloud storage, email aliases, and collaborative docs. This article contains some possible replacements.

🔑 How to export passwords from Google Chrome - Unfortunately, the most commonly used password manager in the world is the one built into the Google Chrome browser. This article explains why this is not a good idea and what to do about it.

🌩️ Dropbox’s privacy practices - We took a dive into the Dropbox privacy policy — it’s not good.

💲 What’s your data really worth? - There’s a saying that data is the new oil because of how valuable it is to the digital economy. But what’s the value of your data, personally? Depending on where you live, information about you could be worth at least several hundred dollars a year to Facebook and Google alone.

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 comment below.