Location Guard

Name: Location Guard
Rating: 4.4 (25 reviews)
Author: Mr. Earnest Walker

Protect Your Privacy with Fake Location Data in Google Edge Browser

This add-on was removed from Edge Add-on Store on 2024-12-30

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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

Add-on

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Version:

3.9.16.113 Last updated: 2023-09-15

Creation date:

2023-09-15

Risk:

Permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*
storage
cookies
tabs
<all_urls>

Size:

590.74KB

Full description:

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Data ingested on:

2024-12-30

User reviews

Pros

Easy to use
Effective at masking location
Allows control over location privacy
User-friendly
Seamless to set different virtual locations

Cons

None mentioned

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Location Guard requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Location Guard may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.