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> Timezones in scheduling websites being messed up nearly made me miss a couple of appointments. The reason for spoofing the time zone (to UTC) is that it is o

by drnick1 5mo ago

> Timezones in scheduling websites being messed up nearly made me miss a couple of appointments. The reason for spoofing the time zone (to UTC) is that it is one of the many things used to fingerprint users. There is an unintended side effect however: a mismatch with the IP geolocation could out you as a VPN user even if no VPN is actually used.

jeroenhd 5mo ago
Of course, but the impact on many web stuff was one of the reasons I didn't turn the option on as part of my standard Firefox setup anymore.
miki123211 5mo ago
It's quite incredible how much you can learn about a person just by knowing their user agent, country of origin and list of preferred languages. When Youtube still supported trends, visiting the trends page from Poland with Safari set to English gave you really interesting results. Mostly intellectually-stimulating content from channels like Veritasium, with a smattering of reviews, trailers, music and focus soundtracks thrown in. Meanwhile, visiting that same page on (Windows) Chrome set to Polish gave you the typical "you won't believe what this man just did!!!" crap.