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Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

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Post by jamal-kumar »

0des wrote: post #4
_gyhb wrote: post #2

Recently made this extension and interested in getting some feedback on it. Vytal can Spoof your timezone, locale, geolocation and user agent. This data can be used to track you or reveal your location. Most extensions that provide anti-fingerprinting features rely on content scripts to inject script tags into webpages. There are many limitations to script tag injections which you can read about here: https://palant.…

I dont want to dislike firefox, but I am starting to find new reasons to resent it. It seems like every other week there is something new I'm finding out about that gives me pause before running updates. Every new 'feature' brings me further and further away from feeling like it's a browser I can trust to be just a browser. Something has to change. Pocket, Allo, still taking the google allowance, absolutely squanderi…

Not having some proprietary debugger thing for this to work with when you can just set location in about:config seems like the pettiest nitpick

Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

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Post by irrational »

0des wrote: post #4
_gyhb wrote: post #2

Recently made this extension and interested in getting some feedback on it. Vytal can Spoof your timezone, locale, geolocation and user agent. This data can be used to track you or reveal your location. Most extensions that provide anti-fingerprinting features rely on content scripts to inject script tags into webpages. There are many limitations to script tag injections which you can read about here: https://palant.…

I dont want to dislike firefox, but I am starting to find new reasons to resent it. It seems like every other week there is something new I'm finding out about that gives me pause before running updates. Every new 'feature' brings me further and further away from feeling like it's a browser I can trust to be just a browser. Something has to change. Pocket, Allo, still taking the google allowance, absolutely squanderi…

But, what will you go to? Chrome is worse by any metric.

Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

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Post by 0des »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #21
0des wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dont want to dislike firefox, but I am starting to find new reasons to resent it. It seems like every other week there is something new I'm finding out about that gives me pause before running updates. Every new 'feature' brings me further and further away from feeling like it's a browser I can trust to be just a browser. Something has to change. Pocket, Allo, still taking the google allowance, absolutely squanderi…

Not having some proprietary debugger thing for this to work with when you can just set location in about:config seems like the pettiest nitpick

If wanting a browser to be just a browser is petty, then I am the pettiest. If you havent tried qutebrowser yet, give it a shot. When I say just a browser, this hits it pretty close, if you ask me.

Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

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Post by Shugarl »

kdot wrote: post #20

Does geolocation need to be spoofed if I'm on a VPN? Is't geolocation detected using IP address?

Well Google Map still knows where I am when my VPN is activated. So I'd say yes, unless VPNs on mobile are less reliable than on PC

Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

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Post by jamal-kumar »

0des wrote: post #26
jamal-kumar wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not having some proprietary debugger thing for this to work with when you can just set location in about:config seems like the pettiest nitpick

If wanting a browser to be just a browser is petty, then I am the pettiest. If you havent tried qutebrowser yet, give it a shot. When I say just a browser, this hits it pretty close, if you ask me.

Vim mode is pretty neat. It seems like the whole app is kind of just like a python gui app wrapper around webkit? Looks like it would be pretty good if I was using linux and a tiling wm as my main thing but these days I'm pretty bound to Windows for the type of development I'm working on.

Most of my linux desktop usage these days is stuff like writing scrapers in cloud containers that need a real browser that I can control using selenium or puppeteer or whatever though, is it supporting anything like that? If this works on Windows too that would be a bonus.

Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN

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Post by 0des »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #29
0des wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If wanting a browser to be just a browser is petty, then I am the pettiest. If you havent tried qutebrowser yet, give it a shot. When I say just a browser, this hits it pretty close, if you ask me.

Vim mode is pretty neat. It seems like the whole app is kind of just like a python gui app wrapper around webkit? Looks like it would be pretty good if I was using linux and a tiling wm as my main thing but these days I'm pretty bound to Windows for the type of development I'm working on. Most of my linux desktop usage these days is stuff like writing scrapers in cloud containers that need a real browser that I can c…

I don't know if it supports that type of workflow yet, but I hope something fills that void soon. It's a very real need with a clearly defined utility.
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