If I wanted to make it so websites see a fake location or just hide my location. How should I do such?
Right now I just want to hide my true location, but I’m confused how, do I have to hide both my v4,v6,ports etc? Or is there a bit more of a simpler way?
Do you use a laptop or a smartphone ?
Your GPS location or your location estimated from your IP address?
Or can you tell a little more about your goal.
@shadowwwind is right, we need more detail. You’ll need to be more technically specific - there are different types of location tracking services, with different mitigation techniques. See my comment on this other post if you need a starting point
I use a laptop.
GPS location, I think? I would like to obscure where websites see my location.
Websites shouldn’t be able to see your exact location unless you grant precise location access to that individual site, which will almost always require consent through a pop-up from your operating system. Without access to your precise location, websites can still see your general location through your IP address, which you can hide by using a trustworthy VPN.
Any of the VPNs mentioned on the linked page will let you choose the city or county you want your traffic to appear from, but are not a perfect all-in-one privacy tool as often marketed. There are ways that websites can fingerprint you or discover your identity despite using a VPN, especially if you aren’t doing anything else to protect yourself from them.
If you want to hide your identity from the site that you are visiting, use Tor, do not log into the website, and be aware that there are many mistakes you can make that will reveal your identity if you aren’t careful.
Also note that websites may block access if they detect a VPN connection, banking sites or streaming services are two common culprates of this. Tor will only make that problem worse, because all of the exit node IP addresses are public.
on a laptop, this is easier to achieve, just disable location, use a VPN and a secure browser (if you may try librewolf).
But you will also need, if you want to rigourous, to use a wired connection. Why, because Wifi could leak your position if it’s scan the surrounding WIFI SSID.
Okay, just a quick question. Is LibreWolf less resource intensive then Firefox(my current browser)? Because I got 4GB of RAM so heavy applications are a hard no.
Thx, I have Tor on my computer, is there anything I NEED to know before using it? Such as modifying certain settings or would that screw up the whole anonymity aspect of Tor?
Librewolf is based on firefox, so it should be the same if you use the same add-ons,
Maybe a bit, because we disable some stuff. But this will heavily depend on what sites you visit.
for firefox based i use this addon, it spoofs timezone + location to match vpn ip. I believe you can also manually specify them aswell
TZ=“$(tzchange)” /usr/bin/firefox
Where tzchange returns a random timezone. This seems to work for me.
It spoof more tha just location. Tough, in free version, you don’t have control about it.
IIRC, you shouldn’t modify any Tor settings, or you will stand out.
