[email protected], Lun 02 Mai 2016 22:21:01 CEST:
So, I guess this is intentional? Perhaps Firefox Sync saves yoru info on their servers so its against the free software philosophy?
Firefox Sync against free software philosophy? Not as long as the program is licensed under a free software license. Abrowser is free software, so it's not against that philosophy in the client side. On the server side, we should check the server program that makes Sync work to know the answer to that.
Firefox Sync against privacy? Yes. Firefox added Sync in version 4.0 offering encryption end-to-end, but since version 29.0 they don't offer it any more. You can't have it if you didn't sign up for it before Firefox 29.0 was released - and even if you did sign up and have Sync with end-to-end encryption, you won't know for how long because since 29.0 that service is considered to be obsolete or deprecated. For the rest of users, Mozilla can access all of the bookmarks, history and even passwords if they have chosen to sync them.
I would like to find an alternative way to sync bookmarks. There's some data I care for even more than bookmarks: contact data. I "sync" my contact data every time I update it by exporting it in a file and sending it between my computer and my smartphone. After that, I import the file on the other side. Wish there was such an easy way with bookmarks, but unfortunately Firefox for Android seems just unable to import bookmarks. Which makes Sync the only way to get the bookmarks into Firefox for Android.
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