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 Chrome extension designed to offer a customized web experience. It allows users to mimic different browser settings including time zone, geolocation, locale and user agent. Useful for testing websites, bypassing regional restrictions, and enhancing online privacy, Vytal leverages the chrome.debugger API for a seamless and undetectable spoofing process. The extension is free, does not collect user data and signup is not mandatory.

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Extension stats

By: https://vytal.io

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Users: 50,000+

Rating: 4.12 (91) ▲ 1 new ratings

Version: 2.1.11 (Last updated: 2024-10-03)

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

Email: co*****@vytal.io

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 3916 ▼ 6

Other rankings

#113 in Privacy & Security

#5 in hot spot keyword 37

#5 in openvpn keyword 21

#14 in open vpn keyword 48 ▼ 2

#26 in setup keyword 31

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Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale (v2.1.8)

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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.

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

Useful for web developers for debugging purposes.
Effective in changing geolocation, timezone, and locale.
Works well in conjunction with VPN extensions.

Cons

Does not change IP address; requires a VPN for full functionality.
Sometimes causes pages to not load until reloaded.
Debugging mode takes up screen space, especially in full-screen mode.

Most mentioned

Not a VPN, but useful when paired with one.
Concerns about security and user data access.
Issues with pages needing to be reloaded for changes to take effect.

Recent reviews

Nord VPN ad

YH K, 2024-10-05

Worked good, but recently started creating advertisement popups for NordVPN. That's a big red flag.

Davy Boone, 2024-10-05

Amazing - solved my problem, If only you can integrate and partner with Nord and Surfshark - they don't have a clue at such a great solution.

Yogi Mahtani, 2024-10-04

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Vytal - Spoof Timezone, Geolocation & Locale if you trust the publisher.