I recently migrated to Librewolf from Firefox due to Mozilla’s recent blunder of covertly adding adware to their browser.

I like the ResistFingerprinting feature for added privacy, but enabling it seems to set my browser time to GMT instead of ET, with most times on webpages (which refer to browser time) ahead by several hours as a result.

Can I define my desired timezone in the browser settings so I don’t have to pick one or the other between a correct browser time and better privacy? TIA :D!

  • @DetachablePianist
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    44 months ago

    Any chance you could share your script? I’ve tried a few browser extensions to solve this but they never seem to work on the sites where I actually need them. Your approach sounds way better!

    • dvb
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      64 months ago

      Yes, of course. You will have to adapt it to your time zone, as the German time zone is currently hardcoded. If I had known back then that I would be sharing this at some point, I would have tried harder. 😅

      // ==UserScript==
      // @name         Spoof Timezone
      // @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
      // @version      0.1
      // @license      GPL-3.0
      // @description  Overwrites the Date object to use the German time zone
      // @author       dvb
      // @match        *://*.foo.com/*
      // @match        *://*.bar.com/*
      // @match        *://*.foobar.com/*
      // @match        https://webbrowsertools.com/timezone/
      // @grant        none
      // @run-at       document-start
      // ==/UserScript==
      
      (function() {
          'use strict';
      
          const originalDate = Date;
      
          function isSummerTime(now) {
              const month = now.getMonth() + 1; // January is 0, so +1
              const day = now.getDate();
              const hour = now.getHours();
      
              if (month > 3 && month < 10) { // Summer time is from April to September
                  return true;
              } else if (month === 3 && day >= 29 && hour >= 2) { // Last Sunday in March at 2 o'clock
                  return true;
              } else if (month === 10 && day <= 25 && hour < 3) { // Last Sunday in October at 3 o'clock
                  return true;
              }
      
              return false;
          }
      
          function getGermanDate(...args) {
              const now = new originalDate(...args);
              const germanTimeZoneOffset = isSummerTime(now) ? -120 : -60; // German time zone is UTC+1 (+2 during summer time)
              if (args.length === 0) {
                  return new originalDate(now.getTime() + (now.getTimezoneOffset() - germanTimeZoneOffset) * 60000);
              } else {
                  return now;
              }
          }
      
          // Overwrite the newDate function
          const newDate = function(...args) {
              return getGermanDate(...args);
          };
      
          // Copy the prototypes and static methods
          Object.setPrototypeOf(newDate, originalDate);
          Object.setPrototypeOf(newDate.prototype, originalDate.prototype);
          for (const prop of Object.getOwnPropertyNames(originalDate)) {
              if (typeof originalDate[prop] === 'function') {
                  newDate[prop] = originalDate[prop].bind(originalDate);
              } else {
                  Object.defineProperty(newDate, prop, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(originalDate, prop));
              }
          }
      
          // Overwrite Date objects
          Date = newDate;
          window.Date = newDate;
      })();
      
      • dvb
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        16 days ago

        This isn’t needed anymore. You can configure exceptions for RFP, for example:

        defaultPref("privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains", "*.foo.com,*.bar.com,*.foobar.com")

      • @DetachablePianist
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        4 months ago

        Thanks! I successfully modified your script to adjust for my local timezone. Definitely seems to work on your example webbrowsertools site, though I still can’t seem to make AWS happy. no idea where they’re pulling their timezone data from, but it always shows me UTC no matter what (and yes, I followed your @match examples adjusting for amazon - the script triggers, just doesn’t fix the time displayed for instance monitoring the way I want).

        anyway, thanks for sharing your script. I love it! I’ll keep playing around to see if I can figure what AWS actually uses to determine “local timezone”.