Chrome/Chromium self sync

Looking for info on hosting your own sync server for Chrome/Chromium. Wendell mentioned it in a video awhile back and no video ever came. From what I can see on google you use a command line argument when you launch the browser and there is some open source python code that acts as the server.

Will be looking into using that from a freenas jail but I was wondering if Wendell is still going to put something out on it. Or if it got discussed somewhere else.

Also how bad is Chrome over Chromium? I assume if I want to minimize spying chromium is the only way.

AS far as I can tell you can run this example server and point chromium to it via --sync-url="server address"

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/chromium/+/trunk/sync/tools/testserver/

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/sync/tools/testserver/chromiumsync.py&q=chromiumsync.py&sq=package%3achromium

wat? lol...

I never realized chrome was different than chromium. I just thought "chrome" was shorthand for "chromium". (speaking of strictly the browser, not the OS)

Forgot to answer this.

There fairly similar, Chrome has the propitiatory binaries and optional metric reporting.

See here for the main differences.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md

Ya I was looking at this. Doesnt seem very difficult might try this week sometime.