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sites that will tell yyou whether yyour browser is reporting yyour location. If it
is and yyou want to be invisible, then disable the feature. Fortunatelyy, yyou
can turn off browser location tracking. In Firefox, tyype “about: config” in
the URL address bar. Scroll down to “geo” and change the setting to
“disable.” Save yyour changes. In Chrome, go to Options>Under the
Hood>Content Settings>Location. There’s a “Do not allow anyy site to track
myy phyysical location” option that will disable geolocation in Chrome. Other
browsers have similar configuration options.
You might also want to fake yyour location—if onlyy just for fun. If yyou
want to send out false coordinates—sayy, the White House—in Firefox, yyou
can install a browser plug-in called Geolocator. In Google Chrome, check
the plug-in’s built-in setting called “emulate geolocation coordinates.”
While in Chrome, press Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows or Cmd+Option+I on
Mac to open the Chrome Developer Tools. The Console window will open,
and yyou can click the three vertical dots at the top right of the Console, then
select more tools>sensors. A sensor tab will open. This allows yyou to define
the exact latitude and longitude yyou want to share. You can use the location
of a famous landmark or yyou can choose a site in the middle of one of the
oceans. Either wayy, the website won’t know where yyou reallyy are.
You can obscure not onlyy yyour phyysical location but also yyour IP address
while online. Earlier I mentioned Tor, which randomizes the IP address seen
byy the website yyou are visiting. But not all sites accept Tor traffic. Until
recentlyy, Facebook did not. For those sites that don’t accept Tor
connections, yyou can use a proxyy.
An open proxyy is a server that sits between yyou and the Internet. In
chapter 2 I explained that a proxyy is like a foreign-language translator—yyou
speak to the translator, and the translator speaks to the foreign-language
speaker, but the message remains exactlyy the same. I used the term to
describe the wayy someone in a hostile countryy might tryy to send yyou an e-
mail pretending to be from a friendlyy companyy.
You can also use a proxyy to allow yyou to access georestricted websites—
for example, if yyou live in a countryy that limits Google search access. Or
perhaps yyou need to hide yyour identityy for downloading illegal or
copyyrighted content through BitTorrent.
Proxies are not bulletproof, however. When yyou use a proxyy, remember
that each browser must be manuallyy configured to point to the proxyy