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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by r721 on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:54AM (#13613717)
That's why I'm wary of browser sync as a concept. Maybe it's not as convenient, but I would better transfer bookmarks as an export file, and passwords as a password manager encrypted container. As for browsing history I'm not even sure it has any long-term importance - useful browsed links can be bookmarked, saved to delicious/diigo/pinboard, tweeted, upvoted on reddit/hn, whatever.
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by CaptSpify on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:06AM (#13613748)
FF used to have browser-sync that you could send to your own server. Last I checked they had disabled it, but I wish it could be revitalized.
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by pmontra on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:08AM (#13613939)
I didn't try but it doesn't seem to be disabled. They have two guides

Self hosted sync server https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync-1.5.html

Self hosted accounts server https://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-fxa.html#howto-...

The latter includes instructions about how to add the accounts server url to about:config

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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by mziulu on Friday February 10, 2017 @09:20AM (#13615479)
Can confirm, still works fine as it always did.
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by CaptSpify on Friday February 10, 2017 @12:15PM (#13616998)
Ah, nice. I'll need to look into setting this up. Thanks!
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by veeti on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:40AM (#13614072)
Both the old and new sync encrypt all data before storing it on the server.
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by dvfjsdhgfv on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:28AM (#13613823)
Has anyone heard about an open source extension doing the same thing?
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by Outpox on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:39AM (#13614064)
I wanted to make one for Vivaldi but it doesn't use Chromium bookmarks API and there was a discussion about it already where it was said to be implemented with the option to sync on a self-hosted server. (https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5816/sync-settings-and-bookm...) I've also been working on one for Chrome but haven't had time lately to work on it.
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Re:iCloud was storing cleared browsing histories by mrmondo on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:31AM (#13614021)
Firefox has the ability to save bookmarks and all settings for that matter to a local folder upon closing the browser, you could then use an open source and hopefully encrypted sync tool to replicate those backups. Might be a bit clunky at first but if it catches on I'm sure one of the open source sync tools will come up with some sort of integration.
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