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I don't actually care about tab sync. I mostly care about this for machines I use as browser based media players, which means I need my history synced.
Main use case is using machine 1 to watch YouTube, then resuming where I left off, via the history menu, on a separate machine.
The Firefox history menu is absolute trash, and there are no extensions to make it behave in a way that's remotely usable.
But my whole use case is not "keeping my content disjointed," which kind of is my point. If my use case was your use case, then sure, your setup is reasonable. But it's not.
And I don't maintain a personal NAS anymore. I realized I just wasn't getting utility out of it, and it was one more thing to get set up again after a move (it wasn't an off the shelf NAS, but a Pi set up with an external storage array.)
Well yes then the things I mentioned indeed likely won't help you.
If you watch on YouTube though, doesn't it keep track of what you were watching in your account? The timestamp isn't ever in my browser history, Is it the frontend you use?
No, YouTube does track that internally. I meant that I don't wan to have to sit down, open up YouTube and search for the thing I was watching again.
This is particularly egregious if you were watching something in a playlist, as YouTube won't suggest a playlist on the front page, just the video you were watching (and that only if you stopped in the middle of an episode, which is rare), so you have to search the channel, click into it, go into playlists, and potentially scroll down a bunch to load them all if there are a lot, just to find the playlist you were watching.
There's also streaming platforms like Dropout that make getting back to where you left off similarly onerous. Because you have to search the show, swap the search to "series", find it in the search results, switch from season 1 to whatever season you're actually on (if you remember), then scroll down to find the episode.
And sure, this is probably only around a minute's worth of work every time, but when it's a daily or more occurrence it becomes frustrating. Especially when the alternative is just having the history page pop up as your launch page and clicking something in the first few options.