[kwlug-disc] Firefox ESR

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Wed Dec 6 13:57:51 EST 2023


On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 6:33 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>
> I have always had the wrong time zone in Firefox as well, and I understand
> it to be a result of Firefox's anti-fingerprinting (web privacy) feature. The time
> zone is one less bit of information that surveillance capitalists can use to uniquely
> identify my browser and track me across the web.

This comes into effect if one has privacy.resistFingerprinting is set
to true in about:config.
I don't have that set to true, so it is not that.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1297208

Moreover, I tried changing privacy from Strict to Standard.
Still no dice ...



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