Excuse me?
Google now moderates your synched bookmarks? The hell?
To clarify: this is a Google Save Collection, which is one of the mechanisms Google syncs bookmarks via. They're not the default in Chrome (but accessible), but they are the only bookmark facility in the Google Search app, using the standard bookmark icon.
@silvermoon82 Well, that's unbearable. Fortunately, this is easily bypassed: you can either just copy-paste your bookmarks in a text file on your hard drive instead of using the bookmarks functionality; or, if you still want to use bookmarks, regularly export and save bookmarks, so that you can still have the addresses if some of them get moderated.
Also, in case you don't already know about the many reasons why Chrome generally speaking is a danger, I recommend reading this comic: https://contrachrome.com/
@silvermoon82 reminder that years ago there were reports as google deleted work related items of sex workers without warning. some of them were even paying google customers.
@silvermoon82 yet another reminder that they know everything, the watch everything, they use everything. A reminder to not feed them more data and to not use google services.
@silvermoon82 Also: synchronised data seems to be plaintext. If it were well encrypted end-to-end they wouldn't have been able to figure this out or make this change.
@silvermoon82 Collections are NOT bookmarks.
I have almost nothing in google.com/save, but many bookmarks.
google.com/save is linked to the "Google Search" application, not Chrome. You might be tricked into thinking they are bookmarks because search results have that "bookmark" icon at the top, but then you're in the Search app, not in Chrome!
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