I am using Safari on MacBook Pro. And I have enabled my VPN, and made sure I select “Deny” in the privacy settings for websites to track my location, I have also disabled location service on my MacBook, why is it that when I go on google and type “something near me”, it would show my location?
Anyone else have this issue?
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I don’t have gps or any location services enabled, I deny any websites from accessing my locations in my safari setting. I also browse on incognito mode so no cookies.
Update: One solution I have found, try connecting to a VPN in another country, I tried connecting to a Canadian server with my VPN and that successfully throw off google’s location reading (It’s still showing me in US, but it’s no longer anywhere near my exact location).
I had this same issue ! Google like knows where my computer is located or something it’s weird. This is while connected to a VPN in Netherlands but my location was still showing.
Make sure you’re logged out of your Google account. Google knows where you are based on your location history from your phone if you have an Android device or use Google maps.
Nope, I always use incognito, don’t ever log on google accounts, ever. Like I said everything I can think of how google can get my information AT ALL I have denied them. So either Safari is lying to me about denying google the information they want, or google is being a real smart creeper creepin on me.
No, but I looked up nxxdvpn’s blog about WebRTC and followed its instructions to secure WebRTC leak and google can still see where I am.
Can these creepers stop creeping on me already.
I don’t use google accounts on my macbook, I make sure to disable location service on safari and on my macbook. So I have no idea how they are still doing it.
Hmmmm. I’m trying to remember what I did because I had that same problem. I think I just switched to FF for privacy and used safari only when I absolutely had to (iCloud and stuff like that).
Check out https://dnsleaktest.com and makes sure it shows their dns again, try the google search in Firefox with or without hardening, or just abandon safari altogether.
Man, it’s been a couple years since I did this so I really can’t remember what I did… if I remember I’ll come back and add it.
IIRC google does some fingerprinting to put the area to “where it last was” from that particular browser configuration. I have a smiler issue with the currency being stuck to a different one when I’m in whichever private browsing mode.
How far away are you setting your VPN location, could it be overlap? Fully exiting and clearing between connections? Could be the fingerprinting, the tracking is intense out there these days.
As soon as I connect to to a vpn server in another country, it throws off google’s location reading (it’s still showing me in US, but now it’s nowhere near where I’m actually am).
Yes, very very certain, bought the subscription downloaded the app logged in and verified it’s “connected”, checked my IP on websites (including my vpn’s official website) and it shows the one I’m connected to.
It absolutely will. You want to select how much you harden the browser based on threat model.
They tell you what each one does so you should be able to pick and choose. Although it probably isn’t the cookie settings that are breaking iCloud, probably one of the JS settings.