How to fake a location in Chrome
Tips Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Often, the user is faced with a situation where the site or that the service request information about its geographic coordinates. On their basis, the service provides the user with relevant data. Previously, the definition of location is carried out only by IP address, but with the advent of the aid HTML5 Geolocation API and comes collection of all available means, including Wi-Fi, GPS and towers of mobile operators, which in total gives a very precise definition location.
In any given situation, the user may want to hide their true location and use a fictitious location. This may be a number of reasons, ranging from a simple draw, to testing your product / service in different cities / countries.
So, we come to the site on which we want to use a fictitious location. Not in a hurry to send the requested data to the browser.
First, run the tool with F12 developer, or a combination of Ctrl + Shift + I. In the menu that appears, looking for the settings icon in the lower right corner. Push it.
You will see another menu. In the left pane, select select Overrides. Now we find in the menu item Override Geolocation and activate it. We can only indicate the latitude and longitude of the place where you want to be for the browser, and then close the Developer Tools and refresh the page.
Now we allow the site to get our bearings.
If you want to get the coordinates of a specific place, they are easy to Google it. In addition, there special services with data on the location of all cities in the world.
Mobile devices based on Android, there are several free applications that allow you to change the location of the device for all services and applications. besides Location Spoofer, Which we wrote about earlier, we can advise Fake GPS and Location Mockup.