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

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Post by withinboredom »

irrational wrote: post #23
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…

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

There’s always Edge if you want Chrome without the Google and want some closed source bits (for streaming or whatever).

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

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Post by withinboredom »

tamrix wrote: post #37

You've also got to set you locale aswell. It's easy to see if you've set your language to say Australian English.

I have my browser set to English in a non-English country. Set your locale to what you are comfortable with reading. It doesn’t (shouldn’t) factor into things except the language the website displays. Unless you are Google, then it might just randomly pick a random language (my results flip flop between Portuguese and Dutch, despite manually changing the language back to English repeatedly).

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

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Post by BlueGh0st »

beatthatflight wrote: post #45

So I've installed it. I'm tunneling to another country. Vytal says everything is correct for country B. However the site I'm testing posting to still detects that I'm outside their country. And I can't work out how :/

Perhaps try a DNS leak test?

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

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Post by WithinReason »

_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.…

Can you explain how Firefox (or Chrome) knows my location within 20m even if I use a VPN? Brave puts me where I think the VPN exit point is.

For example:

https://wikishootme.toolforge.org/

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

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Post by kilroy123 »

0x0000000 wrote: post #3
_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'm commenting here both to remind myself to check back and try this out when I'm not on mobile, and to thank you for building this- at first glance it looks good.

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