THE TAKEAWAYS
Chrome knows what you are doing, when, and, most importantly, where you’re doing it. So as long as you’re using it to do your thing, it’s unavoidable for the web browser and Google to know what you do online. However, giving up your physical location to them seems like too much of a privacy breach for many users. Fortunately, there’s plenty you can do to change that. While the best method to change Chrome location on any device is using a VPN, other alternative techniques also exist to achieve this goal. This guide elaborates on why and how to spoof your Chrome location.
Every time you launch your beloved Google Chrome web browser to start navigating the web, it performs a set of under-the-hood tasks before it’s ready for you to use. Identifying your physical location to the highest possible degree of accuracy is one of those tasks. It enables Google to deliver location-based ads to you. It also facilitates tagging in social media status posts, etc.
But that concerns many users — for all understandable reasons — about privacy regarding their devices and sharing their location.
