How to keep bookmarks in secret?

The explosive development of social bookmarking services such as Delicious (formerly del.icio.us), ma.gnolia , etc. revealed a very large number of users who are willing to share their bookmarks. These services have gathered whole communities. However, today we are not talking about them, but about those who need a convenient and safe tool to access their bookmarks. There are links that need to be preserved and not advertised. These can be links to pages with financial data or links to the administrative parts of the site or even porn links;). It is necessary to hide these links from everyone, but not to depend on a specific computer. The following is a review of two methods, for users of social bookmarking and for adherents of the old school of storing bookmarks in the browser.

Social bookmarks.
Social bookmarking services are a very convenient tool for storing your bookmarks and a way to share with others. Just because they make it easy to share bookmarks does not mean that you need to do it. In theory, you could keep all your bookmarks closed. In this way, bookmarks can be kept confidential in all social bookmarking services. To do this, when you save a bookmark, do not forget to bookmark a bookmark as closed to others.


In the del.icio.us plugin for Firefox, do not share should be noted.

Old school =)

This may seem primitive, but you can simply export your bookmarks from Firefox to a regular HTML file and upload it to your own server or to a flash drive that you always carry with you. In Firefox, select the “Bookmarks” menu item, then “Manage Bookmarks ...”, in the opened bookmark management window, select File -> Export.

Export Bookmarks to Firefox
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The file bookmarks.html can be added to the archive with a password and not worry about the safety of your bookmarks. You can also download this file to your personal server on the Internet. To do this, create a folder on the server, for example “bookmarks” and upload your bookmarked file there (you can also rename it to index.html). In the created folder, create the “.htaccess” file and write into it:

  AuthName "Password Protect Directory"
 AuthType Basic
 AuthUserFile /path/to/bookmarks/.htpasswd
 <Limit GET POST PUT>

 Require valid-user
 </ Limit> 

Instead of “/ path / to /”, you must specify the full path to the “bookmarks” folder. Now in this folder you need to create a .htpasswd file with text in the format:

  username: encryptedpassword 

Where username is a username, any name, you can use your nickname and encryptedpassword is an encrypted password. To get this string, use this service .
Now, when accessing this folder through a browser, for example, www.site.ru/user/bookmarks , the browser will ask you to enter a username and password.
If this method seemed too complicated or you do not have such knowledge, then we advise you to look into the Firefox plugin called Foxmarks. He will do the same thing automatically. To do this, you need to specify only the login and password for FTP access to your server. If you have a problem with your own server, I suggest using data storage services. Although they are not intended for storing bookmarks, they can do a great job with this method. In fact, you need to find free hosting with ftp access .

Foxmarks
That's all I wanted to say! Keep your bookmarks clean and safe =)

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