AI 产品解读Google Search location spoofing extension that modifies HTTP request headers to make Google believe the user is searching from a different geographic location
Users cannot easily view Google Search results localized to a different city, country, or region from their actual physical location. Google personalizes search results based on detected location via x-geo headers and accept-language settings.
User opens the popup, searches for a place using the autocomplete (powered by Google Maps or Photon geocoding), selects the desired location, optionally adjusts language and country parameters, then toggles the 'enabled' switch. The extension then modifies x-geo and accept-language request headers on all Google.com requests via declarativeNetRequest session rules, making Google serve results as if the user were in the selected location. Users can save favorite locations and quickly switch via context menu.
Spoof x-geo and accept-language HTTP headers for all google.com requests using declarativeNetRequestSearch and select locations via autocomplete using Google Maps or Photon (komoot.io) geocoding APIsSet custom language (hl) and country (gl) parameters for Google SearchSave and manage favorite locations with context menu quick-switchToggle spoofing on/off with a single switchRight-click context menu for quick location switching
- 目标用户
- SEO professionals checking local search results / Digital marketers auditing regional Google SERPs / Developers testing geo-localized web applications / Researchers needing to view search results from different locations / Travelers wanting to preview search results for destinations
- popup.js is 3696 lines (mostly location data arrays), only first 140 lines were read but core logic is clear
- No privacy policy URL provided in Chrome Web Store listing
付费分析未识别到付费功能
No paid features, subscription gates, upgrade prompts, or payment-related code found anywhere in the extension. All keyword matches for 'pro', 'license' are from bundled third-party libraries (Bootstrap, jQuery, Handlebars license headers). No references to premium, subscribe, upgrade, payment, price, buy, purchase, or donate in any source file. The extension provides all its functionality (location spoofing, favorites, context menu, region selection) without any gating.
- 置信度
- 97
- 支付平台
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- 来源
- AI / 高
- 需要登录
- 否
- 登录理由
- The extension requires no login or account creation. It uses chrome.storage.sync to persist settings locally in the browser profile. All keyword matches for 'auth', 'session', and 'token' are false positives from third-party libraries (Bootstrap license comments), Chrome extension API calls (updateSessionRules), and text tokenization libraries (Bloodhound tokenizers). The 'authuser=0' in Google URLs is a standard query parameter, not an authentication requirement.
I'm a regular user, last few day's this extension not worked. I tried few more but not found a alternative of "gs location changer". Finally it working again. Thanks to the developers. 🙂
Love this extension — super helpful and usually works great. But lately I’m running into an issue that needs a quick fix. Valentin Pletzer, could you please look into this error when you get a chance? Appreciate your work on this!
It stopped working for 3 days now. Please fix it
Good Extension but now issue that is not fetch the address kindly solve this issue
Extension is not working anymore
Why Tool does not work.
Fantastic extension, but have stopped working for the past few days. Any chance this can still be fixed?
The extension is great, but for the last few days the location option hasn’t been working. I am very thankful to the developer for this extension, but could you please fix the issue and provide us with an updated and working version? Thanks again.
It stopped working for 3 days now. Please fix it
Stopped working