The Vytal is an open code extension for Chromium-based browsers that will spoof your location, locale, time zone, and username.
The Vytal uses the chrome.debugger API, which according to this developer makes the use of the extension undetectable and thus can successfully spoof data on the initial load of web pages, as well as any iframes that may be present in them.
Vytal's raison d'être is to give VPN users a tool so that they can set location identifiers so that the VPN machines that are automatically directed by them to connect are directed according to the user's desire. Of course, another feature of Vytal is to completely hide your real data from the websites you visit, even VPNs.
The Vytal extension is available in the Chrome Web Store. Just visit his profile page there and install it, just like any other Chrome extension. You can check it out source code of the GitHub extension.
The installation adds an icon to the Chrome main toolbar that you can interact with. One click displays the available options and information about the current IP address and region.
The menu lists dozens of local site profiles that you can manually apply to falsify your location, time zone, and local settings, for example in Moscow, Houston, Jerusalem, or Bangkok.
There is also a custom option available, to manually enter data into the fields, as well as an option to randomize the data every 60 minutes.
Last but not least, you can also manually define a different user.
Vytal has two drawbacks that users should be aware of. Chromium-based browsers display a "Vytal started debugging in this browser" message at the top when extensions using the debugging API are enabled.
Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers support the -silent-debugger-extension-api command-line switch, which suppresses the message in the browser.
The second issue is a little more important. There is a slight delay between opening a new tab and starting the debugger. Websites may use this delay to retrieve information before the actual falsification takes place.
Because it is tab-based, users may bypass it by first loading secure sites into tabs before loading sites that may detect counterfeiting this way.
The browser extension is not available for Firefox, as the browser does not support the developer-friendly debugging API.
