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Browser Timezone & Privacy Concerns
(lemmy.world)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Set your system time to UTC.
could you please provide a link to an article or video about how a website could have access to information on local machine?
Your web browser gives up that information when asked by a site.
is it possible to
There may be browser extensions that will spoof your TZ data.
but then the time display on my system would be incorrect wouldn't it
Firefox has a fingerprint resistance serting that sets the clock to UTC. It messes up a lot of sites. There's 10 million people in my timezone so I just leave it.
thanks a lot
It'll also be wrong in every application you run in your browser. Even local sites.
Yeah I tried this as well and royally fucked myself. Not worth it.
Yes.