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A comment on Firefox's protection against fingerprinting.

Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by 1024core on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:09PM (#31480853)
I really, really wish they would make it site-specific: i.e., give me the option to disable it for certain domains. Currently, I have it enabled, but this causes sites (like GMail) to not know the current time. So my GMail shows emails' times in GMT.

I mean, I'm already logged into the site; I have already given them my name, password, etc. So what am I trying to hide from them??

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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by Slylencer on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:15PM (#31480950)
You can add exemptions to preference: privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains

edit: wording

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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by gruez on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:36PM (#31481250)
You also need privacy.resistFingerprinting.testGranularityMask set to 4 for it to work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/q9kql8/help_settin...

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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by m463 on Monday May 23, 2022 @04:07PM (#31484197)
for some reason, neither of these work.

I've been trying to get slack to show the current time on messages.

does it just hardcode GMT?

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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by gruez on Monday May 23, 2022 @08:04PM (#31486393)
have you tried closing the tab and restarting the browser? failing that, there might be some mechanism where slack saves your timezone in its user profile (or localstorage) and uses that even if the timezone reported by the browser changes
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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by jeroenhd on Monday May 23, 2022 @12:44PM (#31481373)
Does disabling tracking protection for the website not work? When I click the little shield in the address bar and toggle tracking protection, most sites relying on tracking scripts start working again.

I suppose there's no field to enter these domains beforehand but I don't really run into any trouble because of this feature.

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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by 1024core on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:04PM (#31483560)
That doesn't seem to work. I disabled "enhanced tracking protection" for GMail, and my emails still show times of 7PM (I'm in LA Timezone, and it's currently noon here).
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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by koheripbal on Monday May 23, 2022 @05:22PM (#31484916)
Email systems usually have a setting for timezone which was likely set once when you created the account. Gmail has this for example.
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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by m463 on Monday May 23, 2022 @04:08PM (#31484209)
I have the same problem - I wonder if that just sets browser timezone to GMT
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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by MasterYoda on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:02PM (#31483547)
One workaround for the the wrong time is to add an addon that change your timezone.
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Re:Firefox's protection against fingerprinting by Melatonic on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:46PM (#31483339)
Great idea - would love this as well. And of course even better if there was an easy way to sync across browsers like other settings
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