How to disable location in Google Chrome?
You may ask why you would want to disable location in Google Chrome. There could be several reasons for this.
* You don’t want to be tracked by Google and then bombarded with ads on all your devices with Google Chrome installed.
* Someone who works on SEO for their website doesn’t want Google Chrome to provide personalized search results, only those that their potential customers see.
* They don’t accept tracking, which is unfortunately widely used not only in Google Chrome but also in various other tools.
* You don’t want to be tracked by companies whose websites you visit.
Unfortunately, on the internet there are only articles about disabling location in Google Chrome, which disables the ability to install cookies from third-party companies when you visit a website. Unfortunately, this does not disable location tracking in Google Chrome itself, which is used by the company Google (and other entities that use these data…) to monitor all your movements.
How do you disable location in Google Chrome?
You can disable the possibility of installing third-party cookies in the settings of Google Chrome without any problems, or enable an alert that will appear on the screen when a website wants to install such a cookie with a question if you allow it to access the site’s location/install the cookie.
If we talk about disconnecting Google from information about where you navigate through the network – unfortunately, there is no such option… in the browser itself (apart from disabling third-party cookie installation), but there are options to make Google Chrome confused, lost its orientation, and one of these solutions is a VPN.
What is a VPN?
This is a network of servers spread all over the world whose only task is to provide anonymity for our actions on the internet. Let’s be honest – such real anonymity in the network does not exist because if someone really wants to find out who clicked on something suspicious (CIA or other services), but we are talking about ordinary mortals who don’t like personalized search results from Google and want to see what others see, those who don’t like being bombarded with “personalized” ads based on what they normally search for on the internet etc.
Permanent disabling of location tracking is limited to buying a VPN application – these costs are usually in the range of a few to several dozen PLN per month, we get access to hundreds/ sometimes thousands of servers spread all over the world, or using the Opera browser, which has offered free VPN service in its browser for some time.
Remember to log out of your Google account while browsing through a VPN on the internet, otherwise it doesn’t make sense at all (((:
The advantage of a paid VPN is that we have an impact on where we use location from, i.e. we can choose a server in any country within the VPN service, which will act as an intermediary between us and the internet.
Unfortunately, with the Opera browser, the choice of VPN is random, we don’t have control over it, so don’t be surprised if you’re browsing Google.pl and see foreign-sounding website names or meta descriptions (e.g. in Chinese or Russian) (: which means that Opera has connected to a server in some country and through it our further navigation on the internet takes place, simply put you see the internet as seen by Russians or Chinese.
If you are looking for a professional VPN, use the service called HideMyAss – this is a very convenient VPN that gives you access to hundreds of servers spread all over the world (over 190 countries), which is important the cost of such a VPN is not more than PLN 8 per month, it’s a laughable price considering the possibilities offered by this VPN – you can turn it on by clicking HERE – you have a 30-day money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied.
If a free VPN functionality where you won’t have an impact on which country you connect to is enough for you, you can download the Opera browser – HERE
