Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
by smichel17 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:35AM
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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.
Re:Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
by stuartd on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:33PM
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I know itβs 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.
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.