Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale

Spoof time zone, geolocation, locale and user agent. Match your location data to your VPN's ip address.
What is Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale?
Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale is a powerful Chrome extension that allows users to customize their browser settings to appear as if they are accessing the internet from different locations. It enables you to spoof your time zone, geolocation, locale, and user agent seamlessly, helping with testing, privacy, and bypassing regional restrictions. Utilizing the chrome.debugger API, Vytal ensures complete undetectability while collecting no data and requiring no signup.

Extension stats

Users: 50,000+
Version: 2.1.14 (Last updated: 2024-10-17)
Creation date: 2021-06-29
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • debugger
Size: 393.22K
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

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This extension allows you to customize your browser's settings to appear as if you are accessing the internet from a different location, locale, or device. This can be useful for testing websites, bypassing regional restrictions, or protecting your privacy online. With just a few clicks, you can change your time zone, locale, geolocation, and user agent to match your desired settings.

Most extensions that provide these features rely on content scripts to inject script tags into web pages. There are many limitations to script tag injections which you can read about here: https://palant.info/2020/12/10/how-anti-fingerprinting-extensions-tend-to-make-fingerprinting-easier

Vytal utilizes the chrome.debugger API to spoof this data instead. This allows the data to be spoofed in frames, web workers and during the initial loading of a website. It also makes the spoofing completely undetectable.

You can test and compare Vytal and other extensions on https://vytal.io

Vytal is free, collects no data and signup is not required.

While spoofing data a notification bar becomes visible. Hiding the bar can be done by using the --silent-debugger-extension-api flag. Instructions on how to run chrome with flags: https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with-flags

Vytal is not a VPN or proxy and will not change your IP address. However, it can be used in combination with a VPN service to obscure your true location.

This extension contains promotions for NordVPN and SurfShark.

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User reviews

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
  • Works as expected for changing geolocation and locale
  • Useful tool for developers to test websites across different devices
  • Easy to use and integrate with VPNs for better spoofing
  • Effective at solving specific problems related to geolocation
Cons
  • Creates advertisement popups for NordVPN
  • Some users report it doesn't work reliably or at all
  • Concerns about security and access to sensitive user data
  • Version discrepancies between Chrome Web Store and GitHub
Most mentioned
  • Works as expected
  • Useful for developers
  • Security concerns
  • Advertisement issues
  • Integration with VPNs
Recent reviews
working fine best for loading
by Satpal Singh, 2024-11-15

keep showing "Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale" started debugging this browser, really annoying
by Elieen Nine, 2024-11-03

nice
by aamberheard, 2024-10-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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