English
See more
Hide your geographic location from websites.
Latest Version
Version
2.5.0
Update
March 18, 2022
Size
593KiB
Developer
Category
Users
300,000+ 
Rating
3.85846 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Extension ID
Languages Support
Permissions
Http://*/*
Https://*/*
Storage
See more
Https://*/*
Storage
Location Guard Extension
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
Read more
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
Source Manifest.json
{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Location Guard", "description": "Hide your geographic location from websites.", "author": "Kostas Chatzikokolakis", "icons": { "16": "images/pin_16.png", "32": "images/pin_32.png", "64": "images/pin_64.png", "128": "images/pin_128.png" }, "version": "2.5.0", "permissions": ["http://*/*", "https://*/*", "storage"], "manifest_version": 2, "background": { "persistent": false, "scripts": ["js/common.js", "js/main.js"] }, "options_ui": { "page": "options.html", "open_in_tab": true }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": { "16": "images/pin_16.png", "19": "images/pin_19.png", "20": "images/pin_20.png", "32": "images/pin_32.png", "38": "images/pin_38.png", "40": "images/pin_40.png", "64": "images/pin_64.png" }, "default_popup": "popup.html", "default_title": "Location Guard" }, "content_scripts": [{ "js": ["js/common.js", "js/content/content.js"], "matches": ["\\u003Call_urls\\u003E"], "run_at": "document_start", "all_frames": true }]}
Read more
Similar Extensions
Change Geolocation (Location Guard) 300,000+ 65 ★ 41.19KiB
IP Address & Geolocation 300,000+ 39 ★ 343KiB
Spoof Geolocation 300,000+ 22 ★ 151KiB
Change GeoLocation 300,000+ 68 ★ 44.84KiB
IP Geo Location 300,000+ 25 ★ 568KiB
Location Guard Plus 300,000+ 10 ★ 638KiB
Simple Proxy Switcher 300,000+ 25 ★ 1.32MiB
LighterFuel for tinder 300,000+ 41 ★ 439KiB
Change My Location 300,000+ 12 ★ 1.14MiB
T-SWINDLER (additional features for TINDER) 300,000+ 35 ★ 666KiB
gs location changer 300,000+ 50 ★ 121KiB
Amazonia Right Click Search - Amazon Co UK 300,000+ 11 ★ 25.91KiB
Auto Scroll: Effortless Page Navigation Chrome Extension 300,000+ 23 ★ 63.05KiB
Google Search Location Changer 300,000+ 17 ★ 45.45KiB
Geo Clever Fixed 300,000+ 60 ★ 1.25MiB
Swiperino 300,000+ 92 ★ 363KiB
GPS Link 300,000+ 35 ★ 78.78KiB
Spoof Timezone 300,000+ 40 ★ 140KiB
WebRTC Control 300,000+ 185 ★ 51.79KiB
Auto Swiper for Tinder, Bumble and more! 300,000+ 148 ★ 468KiB
Google Search - Geolocation & Language Change 300,000+ 37 ★ 51.66KiB
Amazopen - Right Click Search 300,000+ 9 ★ 16.23KiB
Link Grabber 300,000+ 238 ★ 675KiB
Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale 300,000+ 99 ★ 384KiB
User reviews
phu xuan xuan (ID: 000000116c7efa54) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 02/06/2024
Troid Dutta (ID: 0000009967255dd6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/10/2023
Михаил С (ID: 000000cbc9eb024b) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 09/25/2023
Nelson Minar (ID: 000000216eec138b) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/30/2023
Timofej Zivoderoff (ID: 000000b6b1bd880a) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 08/15/2023
