Not all settings are not synced (ex: Appearance)

Steps to Reproduce -> Version 1.20.74 Chromium: 88.0.4324.79 nightly (64-Bit)

1. Add several clients to your sync chain
2. Activate full sync
3. All clients will sync bookmars, passwords,… but not the settings of brave

Actual result:

No screenshot needed.

Expected result:

-> Sync everything -> Sync everything as well the settings of my browser!

Reproduces how often:

Always - I’ve experienced it when I’ve installed several Linux test machines and had always set it up in darkmode, address bar, w/o rewards,… although it was sync with my Windows machine

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.20.74 Chromium: 88.0.4324.79 (Offizieller Build) nightly (64-Bit)
Überarbeitung	bd1e9353659b2491dac971226a973ca3b5684a14-refs/branch-heads/4324@{#1520}
Betriebssystem	Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19041.685)
JavaScript	V8 8.8.278
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4324.79 Safari/537.36
Befehlszeile	"C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser-Nightly\Application\brave.exe" --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode,AutoupgradeMixedContent,WinrtGeolocationImplementation,LegacyTLSEnforced,PrefetchPrivacyChanges,PasswordImport,ReducedReferrerGranularity --disable-features=AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,TextFragmentAnchor,PrivacySettingsRedesign,NotificationTriggers,WebOTP,PasswordCheck,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,TabHoverCards,AutofillServerCommunication,IdleDetection --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Pfad zur ausführbaren Datei	C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser-Nightly\Application\brave.exe
Profilpfad	C:\Users\rednag\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser-Nightly\User Data\Default
Varianten	5e3a236d-59e286d0

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
• Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?
• Yes

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• No
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
• No, the settings are brave specific except dark mode.

Miscellaneous Information:

[Germs2004]

Suggestions:

I assume that developing the capability to sync ALL settings would be hard/impossible so one suggestion is to move all settings that a user can sync now under the same navigation path (and in all device types), for example with root section X, and put X in the options to “Sync data”.

I think this is a great idea. Put all the syncing settings in one area of the Settings page, and all the non-syncing (per-device) settings in a separate area. Alternatively, keep them mixed together but put a special icon next to the syncing settings so we know that changing it will affect more than 1 device.

[thesuperzapper]

I always assumed they didn’t sync hiding the new-tab-page ads and crypto stuff because Brave makes money from those.

That also may be why no one has made an effort to fix this, lol!