While it’s sometimes nice to receive news, ads, and other items relevant to your particular locale, some web surfers are not comfortable with apps and pages that employ this data to customize their online experience. Keeping this in mind, browsers give you the opportunity to control location-based settings accordingly. The tutorials below detail how to use and modify this functionality in several different popular browsers.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers available, Here’s how to disable its geolocation services:
Mozilla Firefox
Location-aware browsing in Firefox asks for your permission when a website attempts to access your location data. Take the following steps to disable this feature altogether.
Microsoft Edge
Here’s how to tweak which websites can access your location using Microsoft’s latest browser.
Opera
Opera uses Google Location Services to track your whereabouts. The first time you go to a website using the browser, it asks you to accept GLS’ terms and conditions. After that, Opera will give you the choice of sending your location data, or not, whenever a website requests that information. But, if you want to disable it completely, go to Settings (Preferences on Mac) > Websites > Location and uncheck Allow websites to request my physical location.
Internet Explorer 11
Here’s how to disable geolocation services in Internet Explorer 11:
Safari for Macs
Safari is the default web browser that ships with all Mac computers. To access or deny access to your physical location in Safari:
Vivaldi
Vivaldi is a free cross-platform web browser that launched in 2016. It’s the most customizable of the popular web browsers.
Allow: Every site you navigate to can see your location.Ask: Vivaldi will ask you before giving location permission to a site.Block: No sites can see your location.
