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Is the sync protocol documented? Can you just use an alternative server of some kind?

Does vanilla Chromium try to sync at all now? Does it silently fail, loudly fail, or just never try?

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

Though its since been replaced by some c++ fake server. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...

Looks like it is? https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sync

And even if not, since the client is OSS, it can be inferred.

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