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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by heresie-dabord on Friday March 14, 2025 @11:33PM (#43369762)
> LibreWolf's anti-fingerprinting features are breaking websites

I parse this not as LibreWolf breaking anything, but instead as,

"LibreWolf's anti-fingerprinting features are working against broken, dark-pattern websites"

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Re:A Look at Firefox Forks by kemayo on Saturday March 15, 2025 @12:00AM (#43369872)
I'm not convinced that "trusting the browser about the timezone it says it's in" is a dark pattern when it's done in service of scheduling meetings that the user directly requested.
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