LogMeIn to shut down Xmarks on May 1, 2018 (Xmarks alternatives inside)

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https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/31/logmein-to-shut-down-xmarks-on-may-1-2018/

LogMeIn, parent company of LastPass, announced today that it will shut down the cross-browser bookmark synchronization service Xmarks on May 1, 2018.

Xmarks launched its service at a time when browsers did not support native synchronization functionality, let alone syncing data between different browsers.
We reviewed the service back in 2009 for the first time and the rocky pass in the years that followed. The creators wanted to shut down the service back in 2010 but LastPass, makers of the password manager, stepped in and acquired Xmarks in the same year.
LastPass introduced premium accounts to add a revenue stream to Xmarks. The service's password sync functionality was removed in 2011 as it stood in direct competition with the password manager LastPass.
Reliability of the bookmarks syncing service deteriorated in recent years. This led to the "What's going on with Xmarks for Firefox" article in 2017.

Xmarks alternatives
One of Xmarks greatest strengths was that it supported cross-browser syncing of bookmarks. All native solutions that support sync synchronize bookmarks only between different instances of the same browser.

Eversync

Eversync is a free and paid service that is available as extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer, and Android and iOS. It supports cross-browser syncing of bookmarks and open tabs but seems to lack some advanced functionality such as making sure the order of bookmarks is retained.
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[LASER_oneXM]

...another alternative:
source (www.ghacks.net): Syncmarx is a Xmarks bookmark syncing alternative - gHacks Tech News

May 02, 2018

Syncmarx is a new browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome -- and web browsers that share the codebase with the two browsers -- that supports cross-browser bookmark syncing. The web browser extension is developed by a former user of Xmarks, a popular cross-browser syncing service that has been shut down today.

 

[JChris]

LogMeIn is not a trustworthy company at all. Too bad it bought LastPass, since then I've been looking for a good and cheap alternative that offers the same features!

PS: No, I won't use KeePass. I know it's more secure, opensource, offline etc. In the end, security is a matter of trading. You have usability or you have security, the more you have one, the less you have the other. In the case of password managers I choose to have a bit more usability, I like having a sync devices feature, a proper mobile app, a proper browser plugin and so on.

 

[Deleted member 65228]

Agreed with the above from @JChris. LogMeIn is not trust-worthy at all and more security removes usability and more usability removes more usability... IMO.