In addition to this I can recommend user-agent switcher: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw...
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Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#12Recently 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.…
Just installed it, it's showing a message on top of each tab in Chrome "Vytal" started debugging this browser Is there a way to get rid of it?
There is a note at the link that explains the command line flag you need to pass in
Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#13This extension takes an interesting approach to spoofing data, which is nice!
In my case, I’m interested in doing the same thing inside of Puppeteer for web scraping, unfortunately it seems like the only possible approach is similar to content scripts (for example https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/pack...) which leads to it being easily detected. Are there any similar approaches that can be used for Puppeteer?
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#15Very interesting. Is there a risk that installing Chrome plugins makes your browser fingerprint more unique? Isn't the list of installed plugin-ins checked?
Chrome extensions can be detected by fetching their web-accessible resources. These are files inside an extension that can be accessed by web pages. Vytal has no web-accessible resources so it can not be detected.
With Manifest V3, you an inject scripts in the "MAIN" world [1] without exposing them as web-accessible resources.
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/scrip...
Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just installed it, it's showing a message on top of each tab in Chrome "Vytal" started debugging this browser Is there a way to get rid of it?
There is a note at the link that explains the command line flag you need to pass in
Thanks, I will have to create a shortcut for it.
This should work
chrome.exe --silent-debugger-extension-api
Is it safe to do? I mean I want to stop this message for Vytal only, because I know that it uses debugger API. But I would want to know if tomorrow my adblocker starts to use debugger API.
Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#17I didn't know how extensive and interesting the chrome debugging API was until today[1]..thanks for sharing!
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/messaging/
Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#18Earlier 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…
> still taking the google allowance, Doesn't Mozilla's revenue breakdown still show Google as the majority of their revenue, and pocket et al are efforts to diversify?
I wonder how that compares with Google Chrome relationship with Google...
Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#19Recently 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…
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Re: Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data to match your VPN
#20Does geolocation need to be spoofed if I'm on a VPN? Is't geolocation detected using IP address?