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Unfortunately I use Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true. This disables leaking time zone information, so when javascript tries to query the ti
by neckardt 5y ago
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.
- hexane360 5y agoI 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!
- captn3m0 5y ago+1. I don’t like being all or nothing. I want to disable Timezone and System Theme anti-fingerprinting but FF gives no option.
- throwawayfb996 5y agoI think the demo always thinks it's night though, by design, because that's the demo.
- atatatat 5y ago...the same way? Each time? In an almost...fingerprintly unique fashion?
- npteljes 5y agoAll Firefoxes report UTC when that's turned on, so it's not that unique.
- atatatat 5y agoPoint is, in conjunction with the other 12+ data points you're giving up, obfuscating the timezone doesn't do much for anti fingerprinting.
- npteljes 5y agoI 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.