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Location Guard (V3)

by Master Tools

v3.0.0 Updated Jan 13, 2025 617KiB
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★ 4.46
26 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year

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/mrfanii/Location-Guard-V3/issues
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Reviews (2 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-03
Polak Das

3rd class review it was

★★☆☆☆2026-03-27
Augure

Why does it need to read and access data on all websites?

Permissions (2)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 3.0.0
Updated Jan 13, 2025
Size 617KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026