u/SpaceJeans

Timeshifter is honestly out of control charging $10 per flight, so I made a free competitor out of spite. Basically it lets you create a free jet lag plan (unlimited, but one at a time), and has a nice Flighty interface, timeline view with destination and origin times, and widgets/dynamic island/live activities.

I am honestly looking for some people who would be interested in early testing and getting feedback so I know how to prioritize my time. I would also be down to test your app as well if you want.

Thanks and have a great day :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avion-shift/id6762112132

I build a browser extension that spoofs your location (for privacy, content access, QA testing). My biggest competitor has 100k+ users and is the default thing people find.

I can show that their extension objectively leaks your real location even while it's on. It changes your coordinates but leaves literally everything else in place, so any website can still tell where you actually are. I built a public test page that proves it in about two seconds.

But none of their 100k users know they have this problem. The extension feels fine and nothing visibly breaks, so I feel kind of like a crackpot saying "hey guys this is still an issue". I've written a detailed comparison and I'm starting to post about it, but it feels like shouting into the void.

Basically my question is this: how do you make an invisible problem feel real without sounding like fud?

Disclosure: I build GeoSpoof, which directly competes with this extension, so take this with a grain of salt. That said, everything in this post is publicly verifiable by installing Spoof Geolocation and running it against geospoof.com/verify

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The screenshots were taken by installing Spoof Geolocation and setting it to Paris, France. I also set my VPN to Paris. I'm actually in Chicago, so any time a test fails, it's showing my real Chicago value instead of Paris.

I was curious how it performed and... it was really bad. The actual geolocation part works fine: it puts the coordinates exactly where you set them. The problem is that a website can tell you're lying using a bunch of APIs that don't even need permission to run. Short list:

• Timezone / UTC offset
• JS Date methods
• Intl formatting
• Temporal Apis

...and more. Long story short, Spoof Geolocation doesn't touch a single one of them. To be fair, it doesn't claim to. But if you're using it to protect your location, bypass content restrictions, or for QA/dev testing, it will eventually cause you problems.

And it's worse than just looking suspicious. It leaves my real timezone in place so any page I visit can tell I'm not in Paris and work out that I'm really in the US Central zone. It doesn't just fail to hide me, it literally points out where I actually am.

I wrote a full blog post about this with the full details: https://geospoof.com/blog/geospoof-vs-spoof-geolocation

I run a chrome extension and a new competitor just came out on the store. Despite me having 2500 users and them having 50, they win the top keyword search (or at least are placed above me).

We both have the keyword in our title, but I took a look at the description and they have the most AI slop, keyword slop junk I’ve ever seen. Literally just spamming as many keywords as possible, all different variations, etc.

i can’t really blame them because Google incentivizes this behavior, so I have no choice but to play along. So right now I’m working on getting rid of my current description and reworking it with Claude to hit as many top keyword searches as possible while also not being mindless drivel.

anyone have any insight into this kinda thing?

If you’re like me you probably use a VPN while traveling to regain access to content and maintain general privacy.

And if you really are like me then you probably get pissed off when you can’t watch YoutubeTV or Netflix while in another region. I’ve pretty much been dead set on trying to fix this problem for the past couple months.

im the author of GeoSpoof, which is basically an extension that lets you spoof your location anywhere and synchronize all signals your browser emits to be THAT location.

I’ve made significant progress on the Chrome extension by using the debugger api to send direct CDP commands to the tab.

This override is applied by the browser engine itself, not just injected when the page loads. This enables the extension to spoof the timezone / location in every single context, including service workers and cross-origin iframes, and to apply it before the page’s first script runs (closing the cold-start race that page-level injection can’t).

Best of all this feature is optional (because opt-in is better for privacy), you can toggle it with Engine-level Spoofing on Details > Advanced

Now available on chromium :)

I completely ignored app store optimization (ASO, or just store optimization). I used Claude to analyze my Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster search performance for my homepage and told it to find my biggest keyword gaps.

Many of these stores weight keywords in the title massively over just mentioning them in the subtitle or description. I changed my title from “GeoSpoof” to “GeoSpoof: Spoof Geolocation and Timezone” and this is the result.

I guess sometimes the best optimizations are just hiding in plain site.

I am the developer of this extension and recently got a 5 star review, but chrome hasn't updated the review aggregate score yet. Does anyone know how long this takes?

Trying to dig myself out of an early 1-star rating bomb that didnt even leave a review :(

I've been building geospoof.com for a couple months now operating basically on a free business model + donation tip jar. I have several thousand users across browser extensions and iOS + macOS app, and I finally got my first tip on iOS.

I have some premium features coming out soon like automatically syncing your geolocation and timezone signals with VPN even when the app is backgrounded, custom accuracy, Mapkit location selector, etc.

I don’t have any premium or subscription model on my iOS app, pretty much just put a donation jar. Which I suppose makes it even sweeter that someone wanted to give me a buck just to say thanks!

I run GeoSpoof, an open-source geolocation extension that matches browser APIs to your VPN exit IP so your browser reports a full consistent identity.

i hit a plateau of about 700 users for about a month. I noticed most of my uninstalls were coming from Russia, so I added language support for the top global languages including Russian, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, and Brazilian Portuguese.

just a week later and my user base is growing exponentially 😅 did not think that would happrn

A few months ago I built GeoSpoof, an extension that spoofs your browser's geolocation, timezone, and WebRTC to match your VPN exit (or any location you choose). The problem it solves: your VPN changes your IP but your browser still leaks your real location. This easily lets websites and services discover lies about your location.

I've gotten about 1.5k users on Firefox and Chrome, and just recently released the iOS, iPadOS and macOS apps for Safari support: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/geospoof/id6765719745

Additionally it is open source and completely free: https://github.com/anthonysgro/geospoof

Happy to answer any questions about how it works or take feedback, I am still actively developing it :)

A few months ago I built GeoSpoof, an extension that spoofs your browser's geolocation, timezone, and WebRTC to match your VPN exit (or any location you choose). The problem it solves: your VPN changes your IP but your browser still leaks your real location through JS APIs.

Just crossed 500 users on Chrome and wanted to share the milestone. It's also on Firefox and Safari if anyone's on those.

It's open source and free: github.com/anthonysgro/geospoof

Happy to answer any questions about how it works or take feedback, I am still actively developing it.