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Is the sync protocol documented? Can you just use an alternative server of some kind? Does vanilla Chromium try to sync at all now? Does it silently fail, loud

• steren 6y ago
  Looks like it is? https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sync https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sync And even if not, since the client is OSS, it can be inferred.
• nullify88 6y ago
  There used to be a Python sync server used in the Chromium project that was used to test sync functionality. Someone discovered this and yanked out the relevant code to enable self hosting. https://github.com/infeeeee/chrome-sync-server https://github.com/infeeeee/chrome-sync-server Though its since been replaced by some c++ fake server. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/heads/master/components/sync/test/fake_server/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...