#3.82 / 314 rate

Location Guard

300,000 users

2019-09-21

Kostas Chatzikokolakis

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This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Description

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

Reviews

Matt Wyatt

With Starlink, every time I search for a business I have to spend time forcing it to where I live and not 2 hours away. I did set my location GPS manually in Google, but it only works for 1-2 searchers and then Google forcibly changes it back. I am very appreciative to have fast internet living in the middle of the woods, but I loose hours of productivity daily. I tried a few and looked at many VPN's. They won't work either as they only allow me to choose major areas/cities. The closest is still an hour away resulting in the same loss of time. I have only tried Location Guard for 10 mins but so far it seems to be working. Why Google wont allow your real location to be known manually in these situations I will never know. Getting results in an area I don't live is very unhelpful. Thank to Location Guard.... Hopefully that's fixed.