There’s a familiar interruption that comes with shopping online: you’ve found what you want, you’re ready to check out, and the store asks you to sign in. Was this the account with your usual password? Did you change it last time? Is it easier to reset it again?
Proton Pass is designed to take that friction out of your day. It creates strong, unique passwords, remembers them for you, and fills them in when you log in. But it also handles something a password alone can’t: keeping your real email address out of another retailer’s database.
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For Black Friday, Proton Pass Plus and Pass Family are both 60% off their regular monthly pricing with a one-year subscription, while Proton Unlimited is 50% off. Pass Plus starts at $1.99 per month, billed annually, making this a good opportunity to get your passwords — and a few other important parts of your digital life — organized.
Take a look at Proton’s Black Friday offers, starting at $1.99 per month
Better passwords, less work
The problem with strong passwords isn’t understanding why you need them; it’s keeping track of a different one for every account.
Proton Pass does that work for you. When you sign up for a website, its password generator can create a strong password that’s completely unique. Save it in your vault, and Proton Pass can fill in your credentials when you return.
That’s useful whether you’re creating an account for a single purchase or signing into a service you use every day.
Unique passwords also help limit the fallout from a data breach. If a retailer exposes your login credentials, using a different password elsewhere means those same credentials won’t unlock your other accounts.
With unlimited logins and encrypted vaults that sync across devices, Proton Pass lets you keep those details together as you move between your phone and computer.
Proton Pass is available for practically every platform, from Chrome and Firefox on the web to native macOS, Windows, and Linux apps to, of course, iOS and Android. This makes it trivially easy to access your passwords, passkeys, and API credentials wherever you find yourself.
Keep your real email address to yourself
Black Friday shopping often leaves something behind long after the packages arrive: a steady stream of promotional emails from stores you barely remember visiting.
Proton Pass includes unlimited hide-my-email aliases, giving you an alternative to handing out your real address every time you create an account.
An alias is an extra email address that forwards messages to your normal inbox. You can give it to a shopping website and still receive your order confirmations and delivery updates, without sharing the underlying address you use for everything else.
If that alias starts receiving spam, you can switch it off. Your real email address stays the same, and you don’t have to update all your other accounts.
It’s a practical way to put some distance between your primary inbox and the websites you’re trying for the first time. A separate alias for each service also gives you more control: you can stop messages arriving through one address without disrupting the others.
A digital safe for the information you always end up searching for
Passwords are only part of what’s worth keeping in a secure, accessible place.
Proton Pass also stores notes, credit card details, and other confidential information in end-to-end encrypted vaults. That makes it useful for the small, everyday moments when you need something sensitive and don’t want to go looking for it.
When you’re booking a flight, saved passport details let you look up the information you need without digging through a drawer halfway through the reservation.
When you’re shopping online, saved card details mean you don’t have to leave the checkout page to find your wallet.
When you’re traveling, keeping a digital copy of an important document within reach gives you a convenient reference while you’re away from home. It doesn’t replace an original document where one is required, but it can save you from searching through scattered files and messages.
Pass Plus also includes a built-in two-factor authenticator, Dark Web Monitoring, and secure link and vault sharing. Those features give you more ways to manage access to your accounts and share sensitive information when you need to.
Three Black Friday offers, depending on what you need
You don’t have to subscribe to Proton’s entire suite to get its password manager. There are separate offers for individuals, households, and anyone looking for a broader set of privacy tools.
Pass Plus is the straightforward choice for one person who wants password generation, autofill, unlimited aliases, and secure storage.
Pass Family includes six Pass Plus accounts and a family admin panel. If several people in your household need a password manager, it’s worth considering rather than setting everyone up with separate subscriptions.
Proton Unlimited bundles Pass with Proton VPN, Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and more, including 500 GB of cloud storage. It’s the option to consider if you also want a VPN, encrypted email, and cloud storage alongside your password manager.
Make the next login easier
A password manager isn’t the most conspicuous Black Friday purchase, but it’s one you can put to work immediately: the next account you create, the next password you forget, or the next time a checkout asks for details you don’t have handy.
Proton’s offers are available to new users and include a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Get 60% off Proton Pass Plus or Pass Family, or save 50% on Proton Unlimited this Black Friday.
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