Submitted 3 weeks ago by ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Had a thought, but some quick searching didn’t really give me much.
Is there such a thing as a browser that respects privacy, and can be synched through self hosted means?
I’d be looking for tab sync, bookmark, history, etc.
I use the floccus extension with Nextcloud as a backend for bookmarks/tabs and wallabag for read-it-later
Does it sync browsing history?
It can track a bookmark last visited time and count a bookmark number times xlicjed. It is a bookmark sync centric service
The only real option is trying to self-host the official sync server for Firefox or Brave. But both seem to be a pita.
There are easy options like floccus but that only syncs bookmarks.
ive been using floccus for a few years now and no complaints
i havnt tried syncing tabs but i think its an option. what i do have is a one-way sync job for the tabs in each browser so i at least have a backup of them, and each browser has its own file, but i would imagine if you tried to sync the same file between multiple devices it would just get very messy at some point
Yeah I wish there was a good answer to that. Floccus at least works ok for bookmarks.
Brave sync server is open source and self host able.
Everything a browser syncs is syncabke password history bookmarks cards etc
The “issue” is there is not an user interface element to add the self hosted instance url
There are workarounds though
You can read my quick how to here
Librewolf (privacy focused firefox fork) syncing the user folders with Syncthing maybe?
Brave
I use xBrowserSync for bookmark syncing. The code hasnt been touched in a few years but it still works great. Set it and forget it. There’s also an android app - not sure about ios.
But it doesnt do browser tabs - just bookmarks.
The Arch Wiki used to have some elaborate tricks on Firefox profile syncing, and some software to support it, maybe you should check that out (but the actual software FF uses is or used to be FOSS as well).
Have a look at Vivaldi
According to their help page it’ll do what you want.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Librewolf, you can host your own sync server.
johntash@eviltoast.org 2 weeks ago
I forgot about librewolf. Any downsides to it over Firefox?
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It’s aggressively privacy-first in some ways. It doesn’t do any self-updating which could be considered phoning home, so you have to make sure you have a way to keep it updated, through a package manager or otherwise. There’s a separate update monitor if you want that, for Windows at least. I tend to dial back the anti-fingerprinting a bit because it just makes browsing frustrating to me. I understand the risk of fingerprinting, and it’s good that they do everything they can to avoid being fingerprinted, but it doesn’t strike the right balance for me. Particularly forcing light mode, I absolutely fucking loathe getting light blasted unexpected into my eyeballs, I always have. The biggest mistake technology ever made in my opinion was trying to pretend an actively illuminated screen was paper and make it blinding white.
I’ve so far resisted the urge to enable DRM. If something won’t show me stuff without DRM I’m willing to just say I don’t want to watch it.
And obviously as per the topic, I turn on sync, which is not on by default, but that’s easy and a sensible default. Honestly it’s mostly sensible defaults.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m using Zen currently, because it at least strips out the telemetry that Firefox has while still being a normal browser.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The defaults are too strict. Removing them removes a lot of things and is counter productive in terms of fingerprinting.