Location Guard

Kostas Chatzikokolakis

(18)

‪20,000+‬ Users
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Kostas Chatzikokolakis

(18)

‪20,000+‬ Users
Accessibility

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Description

Modern browsers such as Microsoft Edge 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

User reviews

Ian's

Nov 19, 2023
Honestly, If you are actually reading this and wondering if you need this. You probably should get it. But, hey that's just my opinion. But it does what it is supposed to do... so... go for it.
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Version 2.5.0Updated March 18, 2022Report abuse
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Version 2.5.0Updated March 18, 2022Report abuse