How to Hide or Fake the Location in Chrome and Firefox

Today most browsers like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox include geolocation services. That can sometimes be interesting. For example, when opening a web page to see what the weather will be, it would quickly show us the area in which we are. However, this also means loss of privacy and can be a problem for many users who do not want to give more data than necessary. In this article we are going to talk about how to hide the location in Chrome and Firefox. We will also explain how to fake that location.

How to hide the location in Chrome and Firefox

We are talking about the two most popular browsers today. They have millions of users on all types of operating systems and platforms. This means that we also have a wide range of possibilities in terms of functions and tools that we can use.

Hide or Fake the Location in Chrome and Firefox

This time we are going to explain what we have to do to hide the location in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. We simply have to follow a series of steps and in a short time we will have improved our privacy in this way.

Hide location in Chrome

First, we will explain how to hide the location in the Google browser. It is the most popular in most operating systems.

For this we have to open the browser, click on the three-point menu above, select Settings , enter Privacy and security , Site settings and there we will see the Location section.

Bloquear la ubicación en Chrome

There will appear some pages and services to which we have given permissions to know our location. We can block it and prevent those pages from accessing that information. We can also check the box so that before knowing the location any site asks us what to do.

We will see two sections: the sites that we have blocked so that they do not know our location and those that we have given permissions to.

Hide location in Firefox

We can do something similar with the Mozilla Firefox browser. As we know it is another of the most used by users and they can also know our location if we do not avoid it correctly.

In this case we start the browser again, go to Options , Privacy and security and look for the Location section, which is at the bottom. There we can modify the sites that we have allowed access, add new ones, etc.

Ocultar la ubicación en Firefox

Below we will see a box to hide the requests to know our location. We can mark it if we want to.

How to fake location in Chrome and Firefox

In addition to preventing them from knowing our location, something we can also do is falsify that location. This can be done in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, although this time we will have to use external tools.

In Google Chrome we can make use of an extension called Location Guard . We can download it from the official Chrome store.

This extension allows us to easily modify the location when browsing. We can put that we are in any other place in the world. It is totally free and very intuitive to use.

We can also make use of a similar tool in Mozilla Firefox. This time we can do it from the browser itself. You have to enter about: config and there look for geo.enabled and make sure it is set to True. Then we have to search for geo.provider.network.url.

In this chaos we are going to have to change a value manually. We will see the edit button and we have to paste the following text data: application / json, {«location»: {«lat»: 00.0000, «lng»: -00.0000}, «accuracy»: 27000.0} What we have to do is change the values of lat (latitude) and lng (longitude). We must know exactly what they are and for this there are different pages and tools that we can use. Thus we can falsify our location in Firefox.

In short, by following these steps we can hide and falsify the location in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.