The only issue I had experienced is that timestamps on Twitch and YouTube chats are displaying time in GMT+0 instead of my timezone. Which is understandable as part of anti-fingerprinting. But that’s just anecdotal experience.
This unfortunately made some issues for me, as the service I was using to study Japanese had an SRS, so the reviews were based on times. I did find a timezone setting but I swear the website didn’t have one originally.
Anyway most of the time the timezone settings don’t matter but I wish I knew how to toggle just that when I need it.
Iirc the only way to disable timezone spoofing is to disable resist fingerprinting altogether, which you can do per website in about:config. Don’t remember exactly what the setting is called bit if you search for fingerprinting you should find it.
I dont think its about the timezone being shared specifically. Its that your timezone can be a part of the puzzle used to track and identify you.
Ad companies dont need to know your name to know who you are. They just need to be able to track your online habits and they can build a digital signature that is you, and they can target that signature and know what to advertise without knowing who you are.
Yep, anti-fingerprinting is a bunch of smaller features, like not auto setting dark theme, not sharing your timezone, not sharing your specific browser version and so on.
My plan is usually, Librewolf for everything. Waterfox when I’m going to log in to the service anyways. Mullvad browser when my customized librewolf(not advised) breaks websites. Ungoogled Chromium when needed because of engine(e.g. testUfo).
I rented a movie the other day online that wanted real full fat Google chrome to be able to stream on Linux. I installed it in a sandbox, locked it down right, then promptly uninstalled it 3 hours later when the movie was over. Never again.
Fandango at home, for anyone wondering which service absolutely requires full fat Google chrome
I tried Librewolf for a while and I gotta admit that many websites were broken for various reasons. It made using the web a bit more difficult.
The only issue I had experienced is that timestamps on Twitch and YouTube chats are displaying time in GMT+0 instead of my timezone. Which is understandable as part of anti-fingerprinting. But that’s just anecdotal experience.
This unfortunately made some issues for me, as the service I was using to study Japanese had an SRS, so the reviews were based on times. I did find a timezone setting but I swear the website didn’t have one originally.
Anyway most of the time the timezone settings don’t matter but I wish I knew how to toggle just that when I need it.
Iirc the only way to disable timezone spoofing is to disable resist fingerprinting altogether, which you can do per website in about:config. Don’t remember exactly what the setting is called bit if you search for fingerprinting you should find it.
People are worried about their timezones being shared? Seems a bit excessive
I dont think its about the timezone being shared specifically. Its that your timezone can be a part of the puzzle used to track and identify you.
Ad companies dont need to know your name to know who you are. They just need to be able to track your online habits and they can build a digital signature that is you, and they can target that signature and know what to advertise without knowing who you are.
Yep, anti-fingerprinting is a bunch of smaller features, like not auto setting dark theme, not sharing your timezone, not sharing your specific browser version and so on.
My plan is usually, Librewolf for everything. Waterfox when I’m going to log in to the service anyways. Mullvad browser when my customized librewolf(not advised) breaks websites. Ungoogled Chromium when needed because of engine(e.g. testUfo).
I rented a movie the other day online that wanted real full fat Google chrome to be able to stream on Linux. I installed it in a sandbox, locked it down right, then promptly uninstalled it 3 hours later when the movie was over. Never again.
Fandango at home, for anyone wondering which service absolutely requires full fat Google chrome