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		jhanschoo on July 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft If you are logged into Chrome your history is synchronized across platforms, tied to your Google account. Same as with Firefox Sync. Not sure about behavior when not logged in, or when incognito.

mnutt on July 21, 2019 [–]

Firefox Sync is quite different than Chrome's version; with Firefox your data is encrypted locally on your machine before it is synced.

qieja on July 21, 2019 | [–]

That is also an option for Chrome.

cjs_2 on July 21, 2019 | | [–]

But not the default.

staticassertion on July 21, 2019 | | [–]

Are you sure about that? Certainly at least some of the synced information is encrypted before sync by default (passwords).

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