Location Guard
What is Location Guard?
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Add-on summary
Modern browsers such as Google 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
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spammy, or outdated.- Easy to use
- Effective at masking location
- Allows control over location privacy
- User-friendly
- Seamless to set different virtual locations
- None mentioned
- Allows control over location privacy
- Easy to use
- Effective at masking location
- User-friendly
- Seamless to set different virtual locations
Recent reviews
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Location Guard is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Location Guard if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Location Guard has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.