Google has turned off access to sync features for Chromium

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  • go-sync

    Brave sync server v2

  • I think what you're describing are the "Tip" buttons which can be added on a few supported sites (which can be disabled). They aren't selling anything- it's a browser feature which people can use if they like.

    The server implementation for sync is mostly compatible with Chromium and can be used without Brave. Someone could clone https://github.com/brave/go-sync and stand up their own server. It would require some patches on top of Chromium (similar to what is done in Brave) to implement the authentication - but once that is done, all of the Chromium tools like chrome://sync-internals work just fine

  • ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

  • There's still Google features in Chromium, just not the features google doesn't want anyone looking at the source.

    Here's a fork of chromium with the other google bits removed. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

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  • xSyn

    Discontinued Compact server implementing xBrowserSync API using Golang and BoltDB

  • You can self-host it with 3d party https://github.com/ishani/xSyn

  • xBrowserSync

    xBrowserSync browser extensions / mobile app (by xbrowsersync)

  • Chromium variants: Edge support is planned for v1.6.0. (https://github.com/xbrowsersync/app/wiki/Roadmap) v1.5.2 is the current version.

    Collections: Don't know, I'm not using collections.

  • chrome-sync-server

    Sync server for chrome/chromium

  • There used to be a Python sync server used in the Chromium project that was used to test sync functionality. Someone discovered this and yanked out the relevant code to enable self hosting.

    https://github.com/infeeeee/chrome-sync-server

    The server was replaced and removed from the upstream repo now but it does give insight as to how it works.

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