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A small point but it assumes that your browser's self-declared timezone is "true" to where you live. My timezone is spoofed to UTC+0; my VPN server is in a different country; and my browser language is set to en-us. I feel like if you see a user whose settings are all of the above then you can assume that none of those three data points actually describe the user, unless they coincidentally are a US English speaker or live in UTC+0, but that'd just be them coincidentally living where anti-fingerprinting browsers report you as.
Anti-fingerprinting is a fingerprint too.
Only if too few people do it.
I know that...? I'm not sure how this relates to the comment you replied to.
they are just warning other readers who might read your comment and think "oh I should spoof timezone and language too". To those readers: don't spoof these yourself, find a browser that has fingerprint resistance on by default, like Tor or Mullvad Browser, and don't change the defaults. The goal is to blend into a crowd of users with the same fingerprint
Ah ok, sorry I read that as correcting me and got confused. But yes, you are right, it is a fingerprint, the point is to just share as much of your fingerprint as possible with other users to make it hard to differentiate you.
My comment was about how the OP website has a line that claims that the reported timezone/language is the "truth" rather than my IP address, and I was just pointing out that that wasn't the case.