[pixellab]

100% exactly. Cookies are device and moment specific. Whereas a user account can easily save and transport the saved experience/setting anywhere the user wants to access them.

[inetknght]

I specifically do not want to have the same experience on multiple devices.

I do not want to have the same experience on my work computer vs my home computer.

I do not want to have the same experience on my home computer vs my personal phone.

I do not want to have the same experience on my personal phone vs my work phone.

I do not want to have the same experience on my work phone vs my work computer.

[gkya]

Firefox (and Chrom{e,ium} AFAIK) can sync up your cookies, among other things.

[trumped]

but if you go this route, you have to share them with a third party (Mozilla or Google)?

[gkya]

Yes, but Firefox's Sync is open source [1], so you should be able to set up a private instance. IDK how easy or hard it is though.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Sync

[Anthony-G]

Thanks for the suggestion. That wiki page brought me to https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run... which I intend to try out. I want to migrate my a Firefox profile from Windows to Linux and synching seems to be the easiest way to transfer bookmarks and saved passwords.