On iOS devices, Safari should be used. How do you handle your bookmarks across multiple devices if you have an iPhone? Is there something like xBrowserSync that also works for iOS?

In iOS, you have “floccus” Its the same thing as Xbrowsersync, unless with Xbrowsersync the bookmarks are saved encrypted in their server, and with Floccus its saved encrypted self-hosted (so you store it in your webdav, gdrive, or nextcloud instance for example) Its also cross platform, iOS Andro…

Floccus works great. An alternative for better direct browser integration would be to use Firefox and self host your own sync server.

I’m trying to understand if Floccus is end-to-end encrypted but I’m having a tough time with it. How does it work, exactly?

No it is not. I used Floccus some time ago in combination with Nextcloud bookmarks. For me personally it wasn’t stable enough. Can’t recommend.

If it’s not e2ee then it won’t be recommended.

I haven’t found any useful information about it either. Seems suspicious to me.

Hi guys, More details for @matchboxbananasynergy and alls. I understand that you’re affraid because I barely see “floccus” on the Recommendations websites as Privacy Guides or Privacy tools. But just keep in mind it was developped since many years (at least 5 years), and that the creator is not s…

And I know that the fact I’m a new user also makes you think that I’m a scam or I don’t know what. But i guess everyone has to start with a first post, right ? Generally your first posts are either: a question, or discuss about something you really like :wink: EDIT: As you can maybe see from …

It does indeed seem to support some encryption nowadays. I have not had this at the time and i cannot find any details about what it uses. With Nextcloud bookmarks it wouldn’t work as the interface would need to decrypt the bookmarks too so that is kind of pointless. The stability problems is that…

Thanks for the details. Regarding duplications, never happened to me, and never heard about it from someone else recently. Maybe it was fixed, because I know that nowadays it’s technically impossible to have twice the same bookmark in the same folder, so maybe it comes from this old problem resolut…

Your comments make sense. I think for your use case this seems to fit you well. I think in order to list it this we would need to know more about how it handles the encryption. I assume it’s end to end but I haven’t been able to find the specification nor what algorithm it uses.

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