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Re:Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync by tomrittervg on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:29AM (#18447964)
There's a few children of this comment, noting this, but to tie things together from someone from Mozilla:

- You can self-host your own sync server. It's not something we spend a lot of time making easy, but it is possible and supported in some capacity: https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

- You can definitely build extensions for other browsers (or a standalone app) that implement the Sync protocol.

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Re:Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync by Vinnl on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:38AM (#18448445)
> - You can definitely build extensions for other browsers (or a standalone app) that implement the Sync protocol.

In fact, GNOME's web browser already did so: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/08/09/on-firefox-syn...

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Re:Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync by nerdponx on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @09:55AM (#18450238)
Last I checked self-hosting a sync server was pretty much not feasible. Happy to see that's changing.
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