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also, take a look at what google sent [?]
https://torrentfreak.com/images/saved-google.jpg
the url was removed from favorites, but google provided the url again.
it would be trivial to copypasta to an external file.
I edit that file to include commonly used links and links I want to remember.
A new bookmark is simply copying the URL and then in a shell: echo '<paste>' >>~/home.html. I go in periodically and organize.
None if this depends on any functionality in the browser, and it is usable in any browser from Chrome to Firefox to Lynx.
> it would be trivial to copypasta to an external file.
You can argue about whether or not this was a reasonable action, but, if it was an unreasonable action, then I think that this is not really a reasonable expectation for mitigation. Presumably, at least some people have lots of links affected.