Overview
Hide your geographic location from websites.
Modern browsers such as Google Chrome can tell websites where you're located in order to provide location-aware functionality. Your geographic location obtained via JavaScript is often highly accurate, which can be a violation of your privacy. This extension allows enjoying geolocation applications while protecting your privacy, by reporting a fake location to websites, after adding a certain amount of "noise" to the real one. The noise is randomly selected in a way that protects the real location from being accurately inferred. There's also an option to use a fixed location, instead of adding noise to the real one. IMPORTANT: Location Guard protects against JavaScript-based geolocation (which has very high accuracy), NOT IP-based geolocation (which typically has low accuracy). If a website detects your coarse location from your IP address, then use a VPN, Location Guard is not meant to solve this problem. To report an issue with Location Guard please use the following page: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard/issues
Angelo SimpronFeb 23, 2024
Works great!
Jacob LefflerJan 14, 2024
This app is only supposed to help hide your location because of crazy people out there. But for many apps you have to have your location posted so I give this app 5 stars. its doing exactly what its supposed to do. I would only use if your a drop shipper or only sell online.
Arpeggio BluesDec 30, 2023
Had problems with google not showing my correct geolocation, despite my IP showing the correct information. Spent many hours on the phone with tech support, they couldn't figure it out. This app just saved me a bunch of headache. Set my actual location using the 'Fixed location' setting using this extension, and now all my location services are working perfectly. No longer am I getting search results from a different city in a different state.
Details
- Version2.5.0
- UpdatedMarch 19, 2022
- Offered byKostas Chatzikokolakis
- Size593KiB
- LanguagesEnglish
- Developer
Email
chatziko@gmail.com - Non-traderThis developer has not identified itself as a trader. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer.
Privacy
This developer declares that your data is
- Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
- Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
- Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
Support
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