Proton pass lifetime promotion. What do you think?
Never trust lifetime deals. Sooner or later, they’ll cut features or limit functionality, claiming it’s a ‘legacy’ plan you originally paid for.
You allegedly get Simplelogin premium with it, so ~6 years to break even at new prices. Should consider that before considering it for Pass.
Lifetime plans are not good for me, if I change idea and, for any reason, I want to change product, it would be a waste of money
… 200 USD for a lifetime sounds like a great deal, but when compared with the 10 USD/year of bitwarden is the same as 20 years with Bitwarden.
I’m also not a fan of a lifetime plan for a security product like a password manager, because it feels like you are forever “stuck” with them.
I’m with you on that. In terms of pricing bitwarden wins hands down.
Both FOSS, that’s good. Bitwarden is arguably more established… proton in an earlier more rapidly evolving stage on some of their products.
I haven’t really compared the interface that closely.
Protonpass and some of their users tend to push the benefits of synergy of using multiple products within the same proton “ecosystem”. Personally I do like some features of proton mail (pin lock on the mobile app, for one thing) but I’m not sure there is much benefit using a password manager in the same ecosystem. What could be the possible ecosystem benefits?
- Coordinating with alias service? I guess the connection to alias service occurs both in the password manager and in the email service, so that’s a potential synergy. I don’t use that feature but I know Bitwarden also coordinates with alias services.
- Proton does offer the option to use the same password for your password manager as your proton/email account, OR to add an additional password (in which case you’ll need 2 passwords to get to your proton pass). But bitwarden also offers a rich variety of options for securing access to your account on each device (to find the right balance convenience and security) and I don’t think missing that one feature has any meaningful significance. Separate strong email password can live inside the bitwarden vault.
- are there other ecosystem synergy benefits I haven’t mentioned? I can’t think of any.
are there other ecosystem synergy benefits I haven’t mentioned?
EDIT - It seems like there could be a potential synergy if you could easily link protondrive files to protonpass entries to serve as a virtual attachment. afaik that is not implemented and there is no attachment feature at all in protonpass. So at present, attachments is a feature bitwarden has that pp is missing.
$200 to keep my license for a password manager and i support the devs. Nbd. Id do the same for bitwarden if they gave me an option.
No deals on regular personal plan… Milking money is all they think of rn
Proton pass isn’t worth money. Period.
Don’t make the mistake to think this means your lifetime. It’s their lifetime.
If Proton Pass is related to Proton Mail, I’d bail. Proton Mail support is abysmal.
I had been hoping a lifetime offer would come up so I jumped straight on this. If any of the “big” password managers had a lifetime license offer I would’ve gone for it regardless of which specific one it was. It just happened to be Proton that was the first one in the time I’d been waiting. Quite pleased that it was tbh because I’ve always loved the Proton aesthetic.
I really can’t stand subscriptions and would rather pay a larger amount upfront and just be done with it.
I bought the lifetime plan and have never been happier… It generally costs $36 a year for Proton Pass and SL combined, And even if they keep the service up for more than 7 years, then for $199, you get your money’s worth and when it comes to subscription I was with Dashlane earlier and all of a sudden they increased their prices to more than 40 times of what it used to be here in India… I used to pay 250INR for a year and then they increased it to INR9900/year… So I guess it is each to their own experiences… I am looking for considerable lifetime deals for most of the services I use… Got pcloud recently, 5TB with encryption for $599 and now this… I guess I am done for the foreseeable future atleast…
I’m using an adguard lifetime account since a few years. didn’t have any issue but now you make me worry 
Just cancel my 2 year proton unlimited to get proton credit, i only have to pay 100$ so its worth
Which is better, Bitwarden or ProtonPass ?
Proton as a brand has screwed a lot of good hearted people. They are as evil as Google. I recently cancelled my subscription with proton. And one FOSS product I opted for is Bitwarden. I don’t mind paying slightly more to maintain my dignity.
"Proton Lifetime"are the equivalent of “penis enlargement” spams. There isn’t anything in the laws of the universe preventing it from being a thing, but you know it’s a scam, and if you have a bit of sense you’d better not get in bed with these people to find out.
If it were 70$ instead of 200$ would have paid in a heartbeat. 200$ is too expensive…
That in less than 10 years they will most likely close the company.
In Proton they know very well that in 20 years they will no longer exist…
Not worth it - self-host your bitwarden and save yourself some money and some security concerns having all your passwords somewhere out there.
If you’re not a fan of “lifetime” plans for security products there’s no real point to your post. Either you want the deal or you don’t. All this feigned opinion wanting is a joke and waste of everyones times.