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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Thanks for looking into it. Please see my response to other comments around here. Sure, a global toggle would be fine but at least a per-site whitelist for any websites like YouTube, Outlook, Gmail, maybe even Telegram Web (since it can schedule msgs), and any service that offers scheduling of content delivery.

    Even greater would be a warning that this is one of the things that the browser does; it should fat-warn you with big, bold or highlighted text during installation that “⚠️ Any scheduled content may end up sending or publishing in a significantly different time zone than your actual. ⚠️”

    Why was there literally no warning by anyone at any point? Me having to find out in the morning by just checking was really quite a needlessly rude awakening. “Here is how to turn this off”; nope, no notice at all. I had to go poking around in /r/LibreWolf to find out that the only way to do this is to already know exactly what to look for in the sprawling about:config, where it doesn’t even fall under “time” at all.

    This sort of forced thing can cause a domino effect of confusion if you need to schedule a private live-stream for a personal event or something and watchers around the world are like, “Wut? Where’s the action?” We ended up not doing it for unrelated reasons, but long after I had left LibreWolf, I had a small-yet-international funeral to hold for a traveler (the stream of which was originally to be linked to specific contacts across different time zones), which I would now absolutely not dare to try under LW versus a normal browser. It felt disgusting that the browser forcibly got in the way instead of just being a passive help.

    “Do you want to spoof your time zone?” could so easily be just one check box during installation or in the settings anywhere…