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privacy.resistFingerprinting has potentially-unwanted side-effects, like wiping out most of your browser history (instead of the more sensible approach of just disabling purple links). I also recall something about it getting removed or nerfed, though I'm not sure whether that was a mere proposal.


It does not wipe your browser history. I can definitely attest to that since my generic JS active + resistFingerprinting profile has a history going back years. It does set your timezone to UTC in JS on websites. I've mostly encountered that when playing Wordle ;)


It also does (or at least used to) mess with dates, due to it attempting to hide what time zone you're in.


The browser should reasonably know what time zone you're in and what time zone you're reporting to the website and translate between them automatically.


Yeah, "should". Too bad it's unfeasible. As soon as you e.g. print the current date as part of a paragraph somewhere, the browser loses track of it, and the website can just read the element's content and parse it back.




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