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I got fed up with Chrome recently (some real ugly on-by-default advertising tracking) and switched to Firefox on my work computer but not my home computer yet.

• itvision 3y ago
  Firefox sync encrypts your data with your password (it's not exactly like that but that's the gist of it) and Mozilla has zero access to it, none at all. I see no reason not to trust them with that. It's a lot easier and _safer_ to use their service then to set up your own. Why safer? Because with your own self-hosting, now you have to have an extra device wide open to the Internet whose safety and security you need to maintain. If it's some shared hosting, you'll have to trust your hosting provider.
  • Cyphase 3y ago
    You make a good point about a potential pitfall of self-hosting things. I'll mention though that if you are self-hosting for just yourself (or some small number of people), you can set up a VPN connection for secure access to your private network, which eliminates the need to open ports to the public internet at all. Other than the VPN of course. Not that you should necessarily rely solely on the VPN for your security, but it helps.