I believe Librewolf and Mullvad Browser change your timezone, either to UTC or to Atlantic/Reyjavik (for some reason; probably a bug on my end). Tor Browser likely does the same, but I'm not sure.
Browsers (except for Tor) doing this in the name of privacy is so dumb. Our timezones are already apparent due to our IP addresses. Not only does this not hide the timezone but also makes the user more fingerprintable. Now I'm the dumbass from Ohio who's browser reports UTC timezone for some reason.
Not so dumb for a bunch of us using VPNs with exit nodes in other time zones.
The user not having a choice is dumb either way. VPN users are the minority.
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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.
Set your system time to UTC.
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.
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.
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