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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by neckardt on Monday May 10, 2021 @05:21PM (#27111027)
Unfortunately I use Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true. This disables leaking time zone information, so when javascript tries to query the time of day it gets a time 7 hours ahead of my actual time zone.

In other words, this function would break websites for me, the demo thinks it's night even though I haven't even had dinner yet.

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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by throwawayfb996 on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:16PM (#27111563)
I think the demo always thinks it's night though, by design, because that's the demo.
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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by hexane360 on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:16PM (#27111561)
I love resistFingerprinting, but I really wish it had a whitelist for certain data on certain sites. Maybe I want my calendar app to know what time zone I'm in!
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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by captn3m0 on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @01:21AM (#27114501)
+1. I don’t like being all or nothing.

I want to disable Timezone and System Theme anti-fingerprinting but FF gives no option.

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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by atatatat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:20AM (#27114820)
...the same way?

Each time?

In an almost...fingerprintly unique fashion?

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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by npteljes on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @05:09AM (#27115904)
All Firefoxes report UTC when that's turned on, so it's not that unique.
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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by atatatat on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @12:38PM (#27120252)
Point is, in conjunction with the other 12+ data points you're giving up, obfuscating the timezone doesn't do much for anti fingerprinting.
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Re:Why should I put my website to sleep? by npteljes on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:25AM (#27140189)
I think they work because of the conjunction. If lots of Firefox users give up these options, then they're not distinguishable from each other. Of course I know this is a cat and mouse game. But I'm siding with the mouse.
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