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• Is it a good idea to change my system timezone to UTC+0 for additional privacy?

  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), a...