Date.now() — Reduced time precision
To offer protection against timing attacks and fingerprinting, the precision of Date.now() might get rounded depending on browser settings.
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To offer protection against timing attacks and fingerprinting, the precision of Date.now() might get rounded depending on browser settings. In Firefox, the privacy.reduceTimerPrecision preference is enabled by default and defaults to 2ms. You can also enable privacy.resistFingerprinting, in which case the precision will be 100ms or the value of privacy.resistFingerprinting.reduceTimerPrecision.microseconds, whichever is larger.
For example, with reduced time precision, the result of Date.now() will always be a multiple of 2, or a multiple of 100 (or privacy.resistFingerprinting.reduceTimerPrecision.microseconds) with privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled.
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