WebDAV is a standard storage interface like you want, but it’s pretty crufty and people don’t like using it.

Yes, but IIRC it delegates authentication to the web server, and I don’t think there really are any implementations to share specific folders to a specific application.

I’m pretty sure some Firefox extensions are able to sync their data or at least their settings through the Firefox Sync mechanism, but read/unread and starred article lists for a feed reader might be too much.

Heh, Firefox Sync is great. Except that even my tiny 27.4kb NoScript configuration can’t be synchronized over it. It actually works automatically for all extensions, by the way. It’s pretty neat, but it covers very few use cases and the stringent storage limitations make it even of narrower use.

And Firefox Sync is the perfect example where my proposal would help. Mozilla could opt not to provide a service, and just allow people to synchronize their data over whatever cloud storage they wanted. (They could even provide very limited cloud storage themselves.)

edit: rclone serve s3 would be an interesting chunk of a way to implement this. However, unfortunately rclone seems to be headed in a direction I’m not a huge fan of :(

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