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New Vytal Chrome extension hides location info that your VPN can't
A new Google Chrome browser extension called Vytal prevents webpages from using programming APIs to find your geographic location leaked, even when using a VPN.
A new Google Chrome browser extension called Vytal prevents webpages from using programming APIs to find your geographic location leaked, even when using a VPN.
Many people use VPNs to hide their location or connect from another country while browsing the web. People do this for various reasons, such as bypassing censorship, geographic blocks, or simply having additional privacy on the Internet.
While a VPN will hide the IP address of your device and thus your physical location, it is possible to use JavaScript functions to query information directly from a web browser to find a visitor's general geographic location.
For example, the Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions() method can be used to retrieve a website visitor's timezone and the Date().toLocaleString() can be used to return the visitor's local time.
Using this information, a website can determine what country, or at least geographic region, a visitor is from and continue blocking content or track general information about the visitor, even if they are using a VPN.
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