Reviews for Location Guard
Location Guard by Kostas Chatzikokolakis, Marco Stronati
159 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15930114, 5 years agoPlease understand what this extension does, and what it does not do.
It does not: SPOOF your IP address. Hundreds of VPN solutions already do that today.
It does: Change how your browser reports your current location based on the computer's understanding of your location. This can be based on a GPS chip, a wifi-location service, and other things including your date/time settings.
This extension was hard to use, but it does work. Here are some tips:
1) If you are on mac, clicking "Allow" when a page requests your location is NOT all you have to do! And firefox did not warn me. You need to go into the system preferences and TURN ON location services for that application. Bad on firefox for not letting us know it is blocked. Instead, after clicking "allow" the extension reports "User denied access to location". Such BS.
2) The extension icon, mentioned as being "green" in the documentation, just does not exist. The only way to get at the controls is through the dialog that pops up when you add the location guard plugin. As a workaround, you can save the extension's URL to access the prefs: moz-extension://e87208ff-5495-274e-aaf9-bdc1f972d413/options.html That is REALLY annoying.
This application is written by security researchers who did a pretty good job by creating this for a simple presentation. As the browsers update themselves it is hard to keep these things working. This one is still working today (7/23/2021) with the caveats above. It's hard for them to stay motivated of course when every mom and pop and would-be techno-nerd who doesn't really know what he's doing is throwing shade at the guys. Personally I hope they will keep it up to date but you can help them out on github with pull requests. Here are the known issues. Nothing to stop folks from helping out. https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard/issues - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14883029, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jacek Jagosz, 5 years agoVeru useful not just for privacy but for setting your location. So you can set your location so websited think you are at a specified location even if you are travelling. Useful for Tinder for example
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ali YILDIRIM, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dharma, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Mario Henrique, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by h2o, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Tremblay, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13404543, 5 years agoIt does what it says. It convolutes your location. What I'd like to see is a site-specific option, so that it can be automatically disabled for certain websites. Then it would get 5 stars from me.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Samuel Costa, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Earl, 5 years agoWhat a waste of time. Did not work for me.? Continuing search for something that actually works and won't waste my time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14552358, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16501035, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15923800, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nb, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by user45263462, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by A FF User, 5 years ago🕵️♂️👎💔👎🤬 ADD SOME PROPER INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO GET STARTED ON THIS PAGE!!! 🕵️♂️ THE EXTENSION HAS NO ICON IN URL BAR OR EXTENSION BUTTON! 🕵️♂️👎💔👎🤬
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16295105, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Denitsa, 5 years agoI don't usually write negative reviews, but this addon has broken my nerves in recent weeks. It doesn't work at all, the icon is constantly disabled and doesn't "turn on" and there's no way to turn it on - I don't know why Firefox allowed such an addon to be published. I tried everything from the "documentation", read all the comments, reinstalled my browser several times - it is still disabled.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Grzesiek, 5 years agodont work
https://browserleaks.com/geo gives my real location - Rated 1 out of 5by 00231, 6 years agoDoes not work, I have tinkered with the settings and tried everything (such as toggling fixed location, reinstalling, restarting browser and device, deleting geocache and browser cache) but according to whatsmyip's approx location tool it can still discover my exact location, despite setting this geospoofer elsewhere. I'm also using a VPN set to the same location I set this to test it (since the site is finding my location by other means that I thought this would solve) - it has no effect. Is there anywhere we can request support, and not just bug reports? I see I'm not alone.
Using Firefox 79.0 on Windows 10. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13954888, 6 years agoLooks good unfortunately didn't work at all. Nor did the only other firefox location addon. I just want it to stop saying i live somewhere i don't. Ugh.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for your review. Can you please elaborate no it? What are you trying to achieve using Location Guard?
You can also report bugs here: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard/issues Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for your review. Can you please elaborate no it? What are you trying to achieve using Location Guard?
You can also report bugs here: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard/issues