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by AshamedCaptain 482 days ago
Why is this downvoted?

Why does this bookmark syncing server need to be anything other than a dumb file storage? It used to be a simple WebDAV server -- Mozilla unilaterally changed it to this monstrosity of a service with little real gain for the user to be seen.
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pieter_mj 482 days ago
It's not about bookmarks only. Also history. A syncserver is the only way to access firefox mobile history, as its api (browser.history) is severely restricted or unavailable. So short of rooting your device to directly access places.sqlite, there's no alternative.
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AshamedCaptain 482 days ago
> A syncserver is the only way to access firefox mobile history, as its api (browser.history) is severely restricted or unavailable. So short of rooting your device to directly access places.sqlite, there's no alternative.

What I'm pointing is that in previous versions, Firefox ITSELF used to allow setting an arbitrary WebDAV server as "sync server", and STILL sync history, tabs, whatever the heck you can think of. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/02/mozil... . It is much later that the option to use a plain WebDAV server disappeared from Firefox Sync, and also later that the option to set your own E2EE key also disappeared (and forced to use the login pw instead, making it easier for Mozilla to capture). The "restriction" you are pointing out is entirely Mozilla-made. All in the name of user convenience of course.

Again, why is anything other than a dumb storage server required, considering than previous versions used to be able to do it with just a dumb storage server ?

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