New Update New privacy feature

[Parkinsond]

Anyone tried the "goelocation" feature?

 

[Marko :)]

For anyone wondering: no—this won't magically unlock georestricted content.

This only spoofs your GPS location, so websites will think you're somewhere else. So... go ahead and put Pyongyang, North Korea.

 

[Parkinsond]

For anyone wondering: no—this won't magically unlock georestricted content.

This only spoofs your GPS location, so websites will think you're somewhere else. So... go ahead and put Pyongyang, North Korea.

Any advantage of spoofing websites?

 

[CyberDevil]

Any advantage of spoofing websites?

Changing your location is a convenient way to receive local offers from stores, but various search engines often determine location by IP address rather than through geolocation data in the browser.

 

[Parkinsond]

Changing your location is a convenient way to receive local offers from stores, but various search engines often determine location by IP address rather than through geolocation data in the browser.

Agree; Google shows weather for my location inspite of changing the geolocation option to somewhere else.

 

[Marko :)]

Any advantage of spoofing websites?

No, not really. I think this was introduced purely because of Google.

99% of the website just use IP address to determine user location, with 1% being GPS or Wi-Fi networks.

Changing your location is a convenient way to receive local offers from stores, but various search engines often determine location by IP address rather than through geolocation data in the browser.

Even that wouldn't work because most of websites determine your location based on IP. Considering tiny amount of PCs has GPS, and they are inside of the buildings, it isn't reliable way to find user location.

Agree; Google shows weather for my location inspite of changing the geolocation option to somewhere else.

Google uses mixed approach. They use Wi-Fi networks, GPS and IP address. This is why they are always correct.

 

[Parkinsond]

Google uses mixed approach. They use Wi-Fi networks, GPS and IP address

They discover my location by IP only; I am connected with Ethernet and have no GPS.

 

[Marko :)]

They discover my location by IP only; I am connected with Ethernet and have no GPS.

On your phone they use Wi-Fi to locate you. They can't do the same on PC, I think.

 

[rashmi]

@Parkinsond, Is this feature available in a snapshot version, as it does not appear to be present in the stable release?