diff --git a/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor.cc b/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor.cc
index c774a02b81bf..f289eda28531 100644
--- a/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor.cc
+++ b/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor.cc
@@ -712,14 +712,7 @@ void BookmarkChangeProcessor::GetAllSyncData(
     resolved_record->first = jslib::SyncRecord::Clone(*record);
     auto* node = FindByObjectId(bookmark_model_, record->objectId);
     if (node) {
-      // only match unsynced nodes so we don't accidentally overwrite
-      // changes from another client with our local changes
-      // TODO(darkdh): remove this hack once sync library can diffenrentiate
-      // records by syncTimstamp
-      if (IsUnsynced(node) ||
-          record->action != jslib::SyncRecord::Action::A_UPDATE) {
       resolved_record->second = BookmarkNodeToSyncBookmark(node);
-      }
     }
 
     records_and_existing_objects->push_back(std::move(resolved_record));
diff --git a/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor_unittest.cc b/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor_unittest.cc
index a078eabc4ef0..d2671e5b1e09 100644
--- a/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor_unittest.cc
+++ b/components/brave_sync/client/bookmark_change_processor_unittest.cc
@@ -739,8 +739,8 @@ TEST_F(BraveBookmarkChangeProcessorTest, GetAllSyncData) {
 
   EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertSyncRecordsBookmarkEqual,
       records_to_resolve.at(0).get(), pair_at_0->first.get());
-  // UPDATE now can be resolved to nullptr in some cases
-  EXPECT_EQ(pair_at_0->second.get(), nullptr);
+  EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertSyncRecordsBookmarkEqual,
+       records.at(1).get(), pair_at_0->second.get());
 
   const auto& pair_at_1 = records_and_existing_objects.at(1);
   EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertSyncRecordsBookmarkEqual,