glint

I use a VPN and/or Tor to do the majority of my websurfing/streaming/torrenting. Some can (notably web browsers*) read your local system time to access your timezone. And, I happen to live in… let’s just say a very “narrow” timezone, my country of origin can be trivially pinpointed if you take a look at the UTC offset. I know Firefox has a setting to spoof my timezone to UTC, but the chromium browsers do not have that option (at least no options i could find after a fairly extensive search), and I don’t even know if all of the other programs I have are reading them or not, such as, for example, my matrix client. So, solution I came up with: do a timedatectl set-timezone UTC on the device. I can separately make my desktop clock do a little timezone conversion so no worries about time disorientation. This fixes the issue with most apps not allowing timezone spoofing too. Honestly, now that I’ve typed all that^^ out, this is beginning to sound like an unnecessary schizo post that goes WAY beyond my threat model XD. Still, I’d love to hear anyone else’s thoughts on it. Ideas to improve upon it are appreciated too.