• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’ve used this. The only annoyance is that all the on-screen timestamps remain in UTC because JS has no idea what timesone you’re in.

    I get that TZ provides a piece of the fingerprint puzzle, but damn it feels excessive.

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      3 days ago

      And automatic darkmode isn’t respected, and a lot of other little annoyances. That’s why this is so difficult. These are all incredibly useful features we would have to sacrifice for privacy.

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        2 days ago

        Dark mode can be recreated using extensions, although the colors most likely won’t be as legible as “native support”.

        I don’t see why a similar extrnsion couldn’t change the timezones of clocks.

        Additionally, I don’t see why the server should bother with either (pragmatically) - Dark mode is just a CSS switch and timezones could be flagged to be “localized” by the browser. No need for extra bandwidth or computing power on the server end, and the overhead would be very low (a few more lines of CSS sent).

        Of course, I know why they bother - Ad networks do a lot more than “just” show ads, and most websites also like to gobble any data they can.