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A comment on Firefox's protection against fingerprinting. Parent comment

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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