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sereneblue / chameleon

WebExtension port of Random Agent Spoofer
https://sereneblue.github.io/chameleon
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Issues In TimeZone detection when using the feature "TimZone according IP" #91

Closed Kraxys closed 5 years ago

Kraxys commented 5 years ago

When selecting spoofing TimeZone according to IP, sometimes the TimeZone doesn't match the IP.

Steps to reproduce:

1a) set up a proxy connection and close browser or 1b) close browser, change VPN server

Then 2a) restart browser and test the time zone on SpoofTimeZone site

The test very often shows IP qand TimeZone and/or TimeZone location don't match.

But when I replace step 2a) by

2b): In chameleon select a fixed time zone spoofing (eg GMT -12 Pacific Kwajalein, or even "default")) and then 3) In Chameleon select TimeZone spoofing according IP

Then he TimeZone and the TimeZone location instantaneously perfectly match the IP.

EDIT: Can't reproduce the problem now. Maybe the above issue is due to some delay involving FoxyProxy (I used it to easily change IP).

sereneblue commented 5 years ago

Chameleon uses https://ipapi.co to get the timezone for the IP. ipapi uses Cloudflare so it may block your IP address if you're using a low quality IP address. If that happens, the timezone is set to UTC.

Kraxys commented 5 years ago

Chameleon uses https://ipapi.co to get the timezone for the IP. ipapi uses Cloudflare so it may block your IP address if you're using a low quality IP address. If that happens, the timezone is set to UTC.

Make sense. I think you can close this thread.