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  • Generally browsing via VPN is not equal to more privacy. It just tells the websites you’re where the server is instead of where you are, while the server might log your full browsing habits even though they promise not to. While legitimate interests, like, ripping you off because you live in a rich country or making sure you’re not in a criminal country, makes browsing with VPN a bad experience.

    Instead, you could fake your location at least in Firefox’ about:config.

    // fake geo location (HB Zürich here)
    user_pref("geo.prompt.testing", true);
    user_pref("geo.prompt.testing.allow", true);
    user_pref("geo.provider.testing", true);
    user_pref("geo.provider.network.url", "data:application/json,{"location": {"lat": 47.377, "lng": 8.540}, "accuracy": 2700.0}"");