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Chrome bookmarks are safe. This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Bookmarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Bookmarks
by tmulcahy 5y ago
Chrome bookmarks are safe. This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Bookmarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Bookmarks
- jfoster 5y agoGoogle truly have a knack for competing with themselves. Hopefully this shutdown represents further consolidation rather than part of ongoing product churn.
- spankalee 5y agoGoogle Bookmarks was launched before Chrome existed.
- jfoster 5y agoSure, but Chrome then introduced Chrome bookmarks rather than just using what already existed.
- tfsh 5y agoIt would be weird to couple together the Chrome bookmarks and Google bookmarks at https://www.google.com/bookmarks https://www.google.com/bookmarks, by doing so Chrome bookmarks which is a browser specific concept would only be accessible through an internet connection, thereby making bookmarking an extension of a cloud based Google product rather than something the user can choose to decouple. A better solution could be to automatically backup users Google bookmarks in a new folder under the Chrome bookmarks or move them to Collections which seems to be the new Google bookmarks
- skinnymuch 5y agoYou could easily have chrome bookmarks work offline and also sync with chrome bookmarks. Other services have been able to do this in the past. There’s likely code on GitHub that takes some managing that can do this with other bookmarking services. If Google Maps stars were added/synced to Bookmarks, it makes sense for Chrome bookmarks to have some coupling as well when Chrome bookmark syncing was introduced.
- jfoster 5y agoSorry, you misunderstood me. My argument was not that they should've introduced Chrome bookmarks and then merged them together. My argument was that they should not have introduced two separate things when improving the one that already existed to simply work offline would have sufficed.