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Encryption is a waste of complexity and battery life here. Firefox encrypts your history and open tabs because those are sensitive. A page number in a book is
by TheDong 11y ago
Encryption is a waste of complexity and battery life here.
Firefox encrypts your history and open tabs because those are sensitive.
A page number in a book is not.
- icebraining 11y agoBut they don't only sync page numbers, but also written annotations (and bookmarks and highlights). And regarding battery life, even a CPU much weaker than the one used by the original Kindle can encrypt at 1MB/s, so encrypting a couple of KB is absolutely negligible.
- dlitz 11y agoA detailed history of what pages of what books I'm reading and when is certainly as sensitive as browser history, if not moreso.