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Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 by stuartd on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:17PM (#24067004)
I used privacy.resistFingerprinting until I realized that was the reason websites were displaying times incorrectly, as they receive the default timezone value of UTC - [0] - and I couldn't find a way around it.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330890

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Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 by smichel17 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:35AM (#24070336)
That's a feature, not a bug. Your time zone is one of the ways you can be fingerprinted.

That said, it wouldn't hurt to split it out into a different about:config preference. I'd probably disable it since I don't use a vpn so my time zone can be deduced from my IP anyway.

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Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0 by stuartd on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:33PM (#24074573)
I know it’s a feature, but even sites which allow you to set a timezone (eg Slack) still displayed times incorrectly. It was a tradeoff I was not prepared to make.
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