Location Guard

Hide your geographic location from websites.

What is Location Guard?

Location Guard is a Chrome extension designed to enhance user privacy by manipulating JavaScript-based geolocation data provided to websites. It either introduces noise to your real location or presents a fixed location, preventing websites from determining your precise geographic position. Note that Location Guard does not mask IP-based locations and is not a substitute for a VPN. Visit direction link for any issues.

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By: Kostas Chatzikokolakis

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Users: 300,000+

Rating: 3.79 (303)

Version: 2.5.0 (Last updated: 2022-03-19)

Creation date: 2019-09-21

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*
storage

Size: 607.23K

Email: ch*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1241 ▼ 10

Other rankings

#25 in Accessibility

#1 in location keyword 28

#137 in protect keyword 59 ▲ 3

#182 in browser settings keyword 61 ▲ 16

#213 in google chrome keyword 97 ▼ 16

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Other platforms

Location Guard (v2.5.0)

3.72 (138) 15,207+

Location Guard (v3.9.16.113)

4.30 (23) 969

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Summary

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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

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps hide your location for privacy
Can fix issues with geolocation on certain websites
Easy to use

Cons

Not effective for all websites, particularly those using IP address for location detection
Lack of clear instructions and demo
May require additional use of VPN for full privacy protection

Most mentioned

Does not work for all websites due to reliance on IP address
Needs clear instructions and demo
Works well for certain users and use cases

Recent reviews

супер плагин!!! спасибо большое!!!

Ihor Shulezhko, 2024-04-15

Kylo Ren, 2023-12-14

Extension hasn't been updated in some form since March 2022. Update may also means it was updated by Google themselves for privacy reasons. It doesn't necessarily mean the developer undated the extension. Instructions for the extension are NOT clear even in the demo. Search feature is broken. I went to Google Maps, Bing Maps. Guess what...it showed my actual location. I selected FIXED LOCATION. I verified it was a weird location. Why is that? Because Google, Bing, and most every website uses your IP location to reveal your location. I haven't heard of any that doesn't. No extension is going to spoof your location UNLESS you use a VPN with location spoofing features. And direct from the developer: "If a website detects your coarse location from your IP address, then use a VPN, Location Guard is not meant to solve this problem." Anyway, I call BS on the positive reviews saying this extension works. This is typical of the reviews these days made by bots, sophists, and trolls.

Google User, 2024-03-21

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Safety

Risk impact

Location Guard may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.