• communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    A small point but it assumes that your browser’s self-declared timezone is “true” to where you live. My timezone is spoofed to UTC+0; my VPN server is in a different country; and my browser language is set to en-us. I feel like if you see a user whose settings are all of the above then you can assume that none of those three data points actually describe the user, unless they coincidentally are a US English speaker or live in UTC+0, but that’d just be them coincidentally living where anti-fingerprinting browsers report you as.

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          2 months ago

          they are just warning other readers who might read your comment and think “oh I should spoof timezone and language too”. To those readers: don’t spoof these yourself, find a browser that has fingerprint resistance on by default, like Tor or Mullvad Browser, and don’t change the defaults. The goal is to blend into a crowd of users with the same fingerprint