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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by feyman_r on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:23PM (#36542505)
Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by tedunangst on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:30PM (#36542600)
On your ftp account, where else?
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by cogman10 on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:35PM (#36542655)
I prefer to telnet it over with a bespoke protocol loosely based on gopher.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by sedatk on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:39PM (#36542710)
Hold on, let me spin up my IMP nodes first.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by davidwritesbugs on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:50PM (#36542851)
that sounds like the lazy guy's way of doing it.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by cogman10 on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:55PM (#36542924)
What can I say, the product guys have gotten to me. This was an MVP approach.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by vacuity on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:30PM (#36545294)
Yeah, real nerds build their own router for maximum bespokeness.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by dr_kiszonka on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:12PM (#36545132)
Wonderful comment. Thanks : - )
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by CatWChainsaw on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:29PM (#36542589)
You value the syncing browser accounts offer. Personally I like being able to go between several of my own computers and not have all settings synced. It's not a fresh slate situation but it is a bit freeing to not carry all my digital baggage all the time.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by pseudalopex on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:05PM (#36543058)
Good for you. Firefox accounts are optional.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by CatWChainsaw on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:16PM (#36543905)
Indeed. I happen to know this because I use Firefox on a daily basis and have never once been pestered to use one.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by pseudalopex on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:49PM (#36555645)
So a browser with accounts works for you. So your comment was irrelevant.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by CatWChainsaw on Sunday July 02, 2023 @07:57AM (#36560609)
Wow, you sure got me. You want a medal or something?
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by mistercheph on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:33PM (#36542637)
This niche use case which offers a marginal benefit even to those who want it, is a laughable mask for the assembly and deployment of one of the world's largest data harvesting networks, the browser 'sync' account
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by dredmorbius on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:54PM (#36542900)
On your personal homepage's bookmarks page.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by brewdad on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:17PM (#36545670)
What about bookmarks that I don’t necessarily want to be publicly known. Not even talking about anything potentially embarrassing. Things like where I bank or my doctor’s appointment booking page.
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by dredmorbius on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:45PM (#36545865)
Presumably that's a small set of bookmarks which you could manage across devices.

Other options might be to have that personal homepage on a non-public machine (e.g., on your home or office LAN), behind a VPN, and/or password protected.

Another practice from days of yore was to export specific bookmarks and transfer those to other systems. This is indeed cumbersome with mobile browsers (I'm not sure these even offer bookmark import/export ... Looks as if that's synch-only for Firefox/Android, which is disappointing.

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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by ThatMedicIsASpy on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:55PM (#36542919)
I just use my domain with a simple frontend for links
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by Bolderman on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:07PM (#36543088)
> Where does one store favorite links so I can handle them on phone and two separate machines?

Linkding: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by Eldt on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:43PM (#36545405)
Linkding is great, and has some browser extensions to inject your favourites into relevant search pages on the likes of google, ddg, bing, etc, which was a nice idea I hadn't considered before
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Re:All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts by themadturk on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:41PM (#36543496)
I'm using raindrop.io. So far, even the free tier works well for me.
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