Bookmark organization with floccus and LinkAce
Saved and Sorted
LinkAce and floccus synchronize and manage bookmarks while storing your data locally.
Anyone who spends a lot of time on the web will repeatedly come across content that they want to save for further evaluation at a later stage. Traditionally, you would use your web browser's bookmark function for this. For example, if you want to continue reading a web page you discover on your way home from work on your computer at home, and you use the browser's bookmarks, this requires synchronization between the devices.
All modern browsers offer synchronization services for this. As an example, think of Firefox Sync [1]. The drawback of these services is that data such as bookmarks, passwords, open tabs, and more are stored on the browser provider's servers. Without wanting to imply anything about Mozilla, what better way can you imagine than this if you want to profile user behavior?
This is remedied by applications such as the floccus [2] browser extension or the self-hosted LinkAce [3] URL manager. Floccus focuses on the secure synchronization of bookmarks between different mobile and stationary platforms and different browsers using a private cloud instance over WebDAV, Nextcloud, or Google Drive. LinkAce's focus is more on archiving bookmarks and improving how they are organized on your own hardware.
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