Description of the Location Guard Chrome Extension
| Name |
Location Guard |
| Store URL |
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/location-guard/cfohepagpmnodfdmjliccbbigdkfcgia |
| Homepage |
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| Tagline |
Hide your geographic location from websites. |
| Rating |
3.81 |
| Rating Count |
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| Installs |
300000 |
| Overview |
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 |
| Version |
2.5.0 |
| Size |
593KiB |
| Email |
chatziko@gmail.com |
| Developer Name |
Kostas Chatzikokolakis |
| Updated Date |
3/19/2022 |
Location Guard looks like a great Chrome extension that has hundreds of thousands of installs already. The latest version is only 593KiB.
