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Geolocation is a relatively new feature in the latest versions of most browsers. It allows websites to track your physical location to provide you with location-based search results, services or options.
You may have noticed that each time you visit a website that requires access to your site for the first time, you see your browser indicating that this website requires access to your site. We have the ability to allow or deny access, but normally we do. If you allow access, you can send your IP address along with your device details, MAC address, etc. This data is stored in cookies. Other websites cannot access this information – only the website to which you have access.
Privacy conscious individuals among you may not want to disclose their physical location. These users can tell their browser to deny access by disabling the geolocation feature. Let’s see how to do this in Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera and Firefox browsers.
Disable geolocation in Internet Explorer
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Open Internet Explorer > Internet Options > Privacy tab. Under Location Check Never let websites query your physical location . Also press button Delete Sites to delete old sites that have access to your physical location.
Click Apply/OK and exit IE.
The registry key affected by changing this parameter is :
HKEY_CURRENT_USERsoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerGeolocation
The value of BlockAllWebsites as 1 means not to allow, while 0 means that websites can query your location.
This prevents all websites from using Microsoft location services to determine the approximate physical location of your computer.
Turn off geolocation in Chrome Browser
Open your Chrome and click the key icon > Settings > Scroll Down > Click Show Advanced Settings. Under Privacy, click the Content Settings button. Scroll down again until you see Location.
Check the box here Do not have a page tracking my physical location .
Click OK and exit.
Turn off geolocation in the Opera browser
Open your Opera > Preferences > Preferences > Preferences. Click the Advanced tab, then click Network. Disable option Enable geolocation.
Click OK and finish.
Disable geolocation in Firefox browser
Open Firefox. Click Settings, and then click the Privacy tab. Under Tracking, check box Tell websites I don’t want to be tracked.
Click OK and exit.
After doing this, you must clear your Internet cache, browser history and cookies before using your browser.
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