Geospoof: a firefox add-on for convenient geolocation privacy

how are you defining spoofing in your tool? I mean, how are you seeing and prefer people see and understand the difference between your tool and what a VPN does? I’m guessing the means through which both try to obfuscate your IP/location is different and that’s how?

spoof = user can set browser values to anything they want in accordance with privacy rights and device ownership. Your other questions: this is good feedback because I think I need to make the distinction clearer to people.

Your VPN is not fullproof. You know how you go to a website and it KNOWS you have a VPN on? That is because websites detect inconsistencies in your IP address, WebRTC true IP, browser geolocation apis, timezone, daylight savings time settings, etc. A VPN alone is not enough to fully mask your location.

At the end of the day, if you want to mask your location, you need both:

  1. A VPN to reroute your IP address to a different location
  2. GeoSpoof to reroute your browser’s geolocation and timezone apis to a different location
  3. WebRTC is common in VPNs as a network-level feature, but GeoSpoof ensures that the browser knows WebRTC protection is on.

If you are missing one or the other your location is not truly masked

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