What is Location Guard?

Location Guard is a Chrome extension developed by Kostas Chatzikokolakis, and its main feature is "Hide your geographic location from websites.".

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Extension Usage Instructions

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

Extension Basic Information

Name	Location Guard
ID	cfohepagpmnodfdmjliccbbigdkfcgia
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/location-guard/cfohepagpmnodfdmjliccbbigdkfcgia
Description	Hide your geographic location from websites.
File Size	593 KB
Installation Count	353,844
Current Version	2.5.0
Last Updated	2022-03-19
Publish Date	2019-09-21
Rating	3.79/5 Total 303 Ratings
Developer	Kostas Chatzikokolakis
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard#location-guard
Help Page URL	https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard/issues
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
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