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[TIL] Homeassistant will show wrong timestamps if you set privacy.resistFingerprinting in Firefox about:config (community.home-assistant.io)

submitted 1 month ago by Lemmling@lemm.ee to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I got paranoid after seeing my windows and doors being open when I was not at home, turns out I was looking at a graph with time in UTC. 😃

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 40 points 1 month ago

This isn't a home assistant thing, this is a Firefox thing. Firefox will use UTC to resist fingerprinting browser wide, meaning all sites, not just home assistant

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

there's a timezone setting in the user settings, but setting it to use the server timezone did not really help for me.

you can also add certain domains to the resistfingerprinting whitelist. I believe its done with the privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains pref

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Timezones are a pretty good identifing aspect to your browser so enabling privacy stuff often messes that up.