I have been noticing that several browsers have limited protection of their bookmarks-facility (in general).
On Firefox it’s used to be quite easy to see somebody’s bookmarks (that’s how Linked-in was thieved from my Firefox browser), and also history back in the day.
Equally i have to say the same about Brave (I lost 140 proposed websites that I was interested in registering).
Not sure about the others and as Opera is somewhat closed-source the issue of ‘saving-bookmarks’ doesn’t please me in that way.
If you know of a browser that has encrypted history and equally encrypted bookmark-facility then let me know?
Maybe I’m old school, but it’s not that simple - if the code is permeable to reaching into the place where bookmarks are stored.
I had to move to iOS to solve that problem & use Ubuntu server-side.
Perhaps you can keep your bookmarks in Zotero citation manager. You can manage private or shared collections (bookmarks) of url’s and leveraging many plugins such as ZotFile. You need to run Zotero in desktop and Zotero extension in browser to capture the sites of interest.
The question is what do you exactly want to achieve by using encryption?
If you use a browser that has built in encryption, this will not protect you from malicious sites sniffing your bookmarks or history from disk or from security bugs in the browser itself since the browser will be able to internally decrypt them on the fly…
Do you want to be protected from third party tools to access your browser data ? In that case simply make sure to use all applications from snaps, they can not access other application data they do not own by design…
Or do you expect encryption to save you from other people using the same computer from accessing your files? In that case you want to encrypt your home directory so other users have no access…
The level of security measures really depends on the specific use case here and what situations you envision to be harmful to you…
Well the only option is Safari as this Linux-browser-issue seems to be too much of a liability.
Shame, I would’ve thought that this wasn’t going to be too big an issue, but it is.
Although now marked as solved … I will throw in another option (requires a subscription, not cheap). I use Tresorit zerotrust data vault. And in following this thread I thought of putting Zotero folder in there.
Sure enough if you search you get this reply …
To encrypt a Zotero collection using Tresorit, you can simply create a Tresorit “tresor” (a secure, encrypted folder) and then sync your Zotero library folder (or a specific collection folder) to that tresor, ensuring end-to-end encryption and zero-knowledge protection.
Zotero is a project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of software and services for researchers and cultural heritage institutions, and is developed by a global community.
More important is who is behind Tresorit? Origins are in Swiss Post Office.
There doesn’t seem to be either an audit of accounts or an audit of the source code by five reputable companies with on-line access and ‘canary’ part to the website.
So, I consider this a loss of fair opportunity and we’re still at the point where you can’t bookmark on Ubuntu.
I’m not sure where this audit of source code leads us. Governance of Ubuntu? Deep stuff.
I trust no software. Hence zerotrust thinking.
Returning to the task of holding secure bookmarks there are several strategies to consider Open a free account with Proton Mail for a start. Then leverage their security features. Proton VPN for example. The paid version (which I use) opens up more features.
Structure your “bookmarks” as nodes in a hierarchy.
You can save CherryTree file(s) as *.ctb with Zip password. But I prefer to use *.ctd format (non database) with multiple CT documents scattered around. A CT for each workflow. A bit like Obsidian. I can access this constellation using Recoll indexing engine.
If you adopt Tresorit you can place your bookmarks there as a tresor.
I find that navigating and referencing the Ubuntu desktop is often more challenging.
That is (or should be) the result. But how do you achieve it? What is necessary? Who decides? …?
In your initial post you wrote “(…) On Firefox it’s used to be quite easy to see somebody’s bookmarks (that’s how Linked-in was thieved from my Firefox browser) (…)”. That sounds like someone hijacked your cookies, not your bookmarks or history. And to me that looks like there must have been more security issues - perhaps outside of the browser.
A final thought before this solved thread closes … Firefox offers different profiles … run firefox -P in terminal.
So you might contain sensitive bookmarks in a narrow Firefox profile and encrypt that between sessions.
I refer back to your post #1.
that’s how Linked-in was thieved from my Firefox browser
You are aware that Firefox extensions have access?
