Real location still visible to websites
Sites still detect the user's real location through IP lookups or other signals despite the spoofed setting.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 23 March 2019 · last reported 26 June 2025
What's going wrong
Users of this location add-on report that websites still find their real location through IP-based lookups or other signals, even when a fake location is set.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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