Geolocation spoofing

Position is the one value a site has to ask you for out loud. Everything else about where you are is read quietly, from the country of your address and from the clock that sits next to it.

Geolocation spoofing is answering a site's request for your position with coordinates chosen in advance rather than measured.

How a site asks for your position

A page calls the position interface and the browser puts a prompt in front of you. Nothing reaches the page until that prompt is answered.

1
Asks the browser
The prompt names the site and waits, and a page cannot answer it on your behalf.
2
Measures when allowed
The reading comes from nearby networks or from a receiver in the device, and it is accurate to a street.
3
Falls back to your address
A refusal leaves the site with the address you came from, which places you in a region.

What travels without a prompt

These are read in your browser on this page and sent nowhere. Your position is not among them, and that is the whole point of the distinction.

Ваша машина просто зараз

Time zone: вимірюємо на вашій машині
Offset from UTC: вимірюємо на вашій машині
Primary language: вимірюємо на вашій машині
Language list: вимірюємо на вашій машині

Прочитано у вашому браузері й показано тут. Нікуди не надсилається.

What a profile carries instead

A profile describes a machine and the country it leaves through. The clock and the language list are aligned with that country at launch, and there is no field in a profile for a latitude.

So the honest way to sit in a city is to leave through an address registered there. Coordinates stay a separate surface behind a prompt, and a refusal is an ordinary answer that sites are built to handle.

Why the pair matters more

An address in one country next to a clock from another gives a visitor away harder than any single reading. It is a contradiction rather than a rarity, and a contradiction needs no reference set to be spotted.

That is why a profile aligns the clock and the language list with the exit country and leaves position alone. Coordinates you were never asked for are not what closes an account.

Often confused with

Timezone spoofing
The clock, which follows the country of your address and needs no prompt of its own.
IP geolocation
What a database says about your address. A check reads that record, not the room you are sitting in.
A VPN
It moves the address your traffic comes from. It does not touch what the position interface answers once you allow it.

What this does not do

ARMANOS does not put invented coordinates in the browser. Nothing in the product rewrites what the position interface answers, so a site you allow reads the real thing.
It does not give a profile a place on the map. A profile holds a machine, an exit country, a clock and a language list, and no coordinates at all.
It does not change what your address says about you. Whoever sells the address decides which city it is registered to, and a check reads that registration.
It does not hide the network you sit on. A browser can hand a page addresses from your own network while setting up a call, and that is closed by a separate rule at launch.

Check it

What a profile contains, and what it does not, comes from files you can open.

Every field a profile describes, with no coordinates among them: packages/shared/src/index.js
Where the exit country is asked, and how each answer is read: apps/desktop/src/lib/exitGeo.js · apps/desktop/test/exit-geo.js
The clock and the language list read back inside a profile: apps/desktop/src/lib/fpAudit.js
Clock and language always come from one country: apps/desktop/test/fingerprint-consistency.js

Questions

Can ARMANOS set my coordinates?: No. Nothing in the product writes a position, so a site you allow reads the real reading. What a profile does align with its address is the clock and the language list.
Does a site get my position without asking?: Not from the position interface. It does get a rough place from your address, and that one needs no permission at all.
Is IP geolocation the same thing?: No. One is a measurement on your device behind a prompt, the other is a record about your address, and only the second is read on every visit.
Should I allow the prompt?: Refusing leaves the site with your address, and that is the place a profile is built around. Allowing it hands over a street.
What if the work needs a particular city?: Then the address has to be registered in that city. The clock and the language list then follow the country of that address by themselves.

Next to this

Give a profile the country it works in

Install ARMANOS, put an address behind a profile, and the clock and the language list follow that address.

Download ARMANOS A proxy per profile