Pick of the Month: Location Guard

by Marco Stronati, Kostas Chatzikokolakis

Enjoy the useful applications of geolocation while protecting your privacy. It does so by reporting a fake location to websites, obtained by adding a certain amount of “noise” to the real location. The noise is randomly selected in a way that ensures that the real location cannot be inferred with high accuracy.

“Many thanks! That’s just what I need and also I like the idea of hiding it but making the icon visible only if there is a location ask.”

by Gomita

Shows a popup on tabs and enables you to preview and navigate tab contents on a popup.

by Daniel Dawson

Adds metadata and sortable tags to the password manager.

by Paul Morris

Keep track of how much time you spend on the web, and where you spend it. Ticker widget shows (1) time spent at the current site and (2) total time spent on the web today.

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