What was new in v1.20.0 (release date: January 20th 2020)

It is now possible to generate an alias email address AND a strong password with a single click from the Smartfield Icon. The Smartfield Icon offers a new “Generate strong and private credentials” option that allows users to create strong and anonymized accounts on their behalf quickly and stores them in their Managers for future login needs.

Deleting an alias email address is a dangerous practice since the address can be used as a User ID for an account. In that case, its deletion makes it impossible for the service to contact the user for information that may be important about their account. Because of this, a message is now displayed for these specific cases to warn users about possible unintended consequences.

All the toggles/switches have been reviewed to make sure they behave with the same logic. Toggles are green when the feature is activated and gray when the feature is deactivated. In the Tracker Manager, green means the trackers are blocked (since this is the feature Privowny App offers—it is also the default setting). In the Alias Manager, green means the alias email address is accepting emails. Additionally, in the Alias Manager, an intermediate orange state lets users know when aliases are either blocking emails with some senders allowed or accepting emails, but with some senders blocked.

Our product website priwony.app now includes a button with a drop-down menu in the footer to easily switch between our French and English versions.

Neither the Smartfield Icon nor the Toolbar were working correctly on Achitectural Designs. Generating alias email addresses and retrieving them was failing. It has been fixed.

The Smartfield Icon was missing on sugarpill.com

expedia.com has a bug that blocks the creation of an account with an alias email address on some devices. This is not linked to the validity of the alias though, and you can use the same alias to create an account from a different device.

The Master Key (or biometric authentication, if enabled) used to be asked each time users needed to perform a sensitive action. This is still the default setting, but it is now up to the users to decide the level of security (vs. convenience) they prefer. Users who prefer not to be asked each time have the option to request the security check only when they launch the app. Users who want to be extra secure can opt for both and be asked to enter it for every sensitive action AND each time they launch the app. Configuring these preferences is available from the Security section of the app’s Settings.

The toggles/switches of the Alias Manager have been reviewed to make sure they behave with the same logic as the ones in the Browser Extension. Toggles are green when the feature is activated and gray when the feature is deactivated. Consequently, in the Alias Manager, green means the alias email address is accepting all emails and gray means that all senders are blocked. An intermediate orange state lets users know when aliases are either blocking emails with some senders allowed or accepting emails, but with some senders blocked.

Deleting an alias email address is a dangerous practice since the address can be used as a User ID for an account. In that case, its deletion makes it impossible for the service to contact the user for information that may be important about their account. Because of this, a message is now displayed for these specific cases to warn users about possible unintended consequences.

A new card in the “Getting started” section helps mobile users install the app on their desktop. The card explains the process and users can request a link to be sent to their inbox. By clicking on the link from their computer, they are directed to a download page where they can easily install the Browser Extension on either Chrome or Firefox and enjoy the same features and more!

The order of the Managers is now consistent with the one used in the Browser Extension: first the Password Manager, then the Alias Manager followed by the Tracker Manager and, lastly, the Data Manager.

Our product website priwony.app now includes a button with a drop-down menu in the footer to easily switch between our French and English versions.

When aliases were receiving emails from unknown senders the app would crash.

The list of trackers detected and blocked was not refreshed appropriately in the Tracker Manager after browsing with Firefox.

The Tracker Filter doesn’t work with the Chrome browser. This is a limitation orchestrated by Chrome for which we currently have no workaround.

expedia.com has a bug that blocks the creation of an account with an alias email address on some devices. This is not linked to the validity of the alias though, and you can use the same alias to create an account from a different device.

The Master Key (or Face ID / Touch ID, if enabled) used to be asked each time users needed to perform a sensitive action. This is still the default setting, but it is now up to the users to decide the level of security (vs. convenience) they prefer. Users who prefer not to be asked each time, have the option to request the security check only when they launch the app. Users who want to be extra secure can opt for both and be asked to enter it for every sensitive action AND each time they launch the app. Configuring these preferences is available from the Security section of the app’s Settings.

The toggles/switches of the Alias Manager have been reviewed to make sure they behave with the same logic as the ones in the Browser Extension. Toggles are green when the feature is activated and gray when the feature is deactivated. Consequently, in the Alias Manager, green means the alias email address is accepting all emails and gray means that all senders are blocked. An intermediate orange state lets users know when aliases are either blocking emails with some senders allowed or accepting emails, but with some senders blocked.

Deleting an alias email address is a dangerous practice since the address can be used as a User ID for an account. In that case, its deletion makes it impossible for the service to contact the user for information that may be important about their account. Because of this, a message is now displayed for these specific cases to warn users about possible unintended consequences.

It is now possible to sort the alias email addresses by date of creation in the Alias Manager.

When users try to create an account for a company with the same User ID as an existing account for that same company, they are warned that the account already exists and taken to the said account in case they want to make edits.

Our product website priwony.app now includes a button with a drop-down menu in the footer to easily switch between our French and English versions.

After resetting the Master Key, trying to decrypt data was making the app crash.

Some of the tooltips in the tutorials in the “Getting started” section would either take too long to load or not disappear fast enough.

The Privowny Autofill feature has some limitations for retrieving credentials. This is fixed with the use of iOS 13.

expedia.com has a bug that blocks the creation of an account with an alias email address on some devices. This is not linked to the validity of the alias though, and you can use the same alias to create an account from a different device.