Reviews for Location Guard
Location Guard by Kostas Chatzikokolakis, Marco Stronati
Response by Kostas Chatzikokolakis
Developer response
posted 8 years agoHello,
Location Guard needs to be able to modify the javascript geolocation API for any webpage. There is no way to do so other than using the generic permission to "Access your data for all websites".
This does not mean that Location Guard reads your data. The extension is open source and reviewed by Mozilla, any malicious behaviour would be easily detected.
Note that the "Access your data for all websites" is standard for most addons, it's hard to do anything without it. Ghostery, for instance, is one of the most well known addons for privacy and does use it. Same for uBlock, AdBlock Plus, etc.
Location Guard needs to be able to modify the javascript geolocation API for any webpage. There is no way to do so other than using the generic permission to "Access your data for all websites".
This does not mean that Location Guard reads your data. The extension is open source and reviewed by Mozilla, any malicious behaviour would be easily detected.
Note that the "Access your data for all websites" is standard for most addons, it's hard to do anything without it. Ghostery, for instance, is one of the most well known addons for privacy and does use it. Same for uBlock, AdBlock Plus, etc.
156 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by streinen, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19131442, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19104339, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by What???, 4 months agoNot working on Facebook (it's not available) but installed. Other sites it's available but I don't think it actually works. Plus actual IP address is also shown.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19074032, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19060621, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nicko, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18894105, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18905009, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by EC, 8 months agoEste parece ser bom mas essa loja avisa que não é confiável e ele também não segura o local fictício igual os vpns.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18850820, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sergio, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Radist, a year agoWorks well, thanks.
 What I would need is to have some fixed "favorite" fake locations.
- Rated 5 out of 5by xzilla, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sirensynapse, a year agoWorks perfectly though it's not pinnable to the toolbar (FIX THIS!!!),. so getting through the multiple layers of settings to actually change things is a bitch. Go to manage extensions, then options then "use fixed location" to nail a location down.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18403132, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nunesgh, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by whthawk, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Argish, 2 years agoTh extension does what it says, use the 'Fixed Location' option if high precision location is not important for you. Read the FAQ. It does not change IP Location though, only Broswer Gelocation is changed (even without using GPS).
- Rated 5 out of 5by hotoke, 2 years ago
