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privacy.resistFingerprinting has potentially-unwanted side-effects, like wiping out most of your browser history (instead of the more sensible approach of just
by wizzwizz4 11mo ago
privacy.resistFingerprinting has potentially-unwanted side-effects, like wiping out most of your browser history (instead of the more sensible approach of just disabling purple links). I also recall something about it getting removed or nerfed, though I'm not sure whether that was a mere proposal.
- noisem4ker 11mo agoIt also does (or at least used to) mess with dates, due to it attempting to hide what time zone you're in.
- godshatter 11mo agoThe browser should reasonably know what time zone you're in and what time zone you're reporting to the website and translate between them automatically.
- noisem4ker 11mo agoYeah, "should". Too bad it's unfeasible. As soon as you e.g. print the current date as part of a paragraph somewhere, the browser loses track of it, and the website can just read the element's content and parse it back.
- capitainenemo 11mo agoIt does not wipe your browser history. I can definitely attest to that since my generic JS active + resistFingerprinting profile has a history going back years. It does set your timezone to UTC in JS on websites. I've mostly encountered that when playing Wordle ;)