I use Advanced Privacy on a daily basis to spoof my location and block trackers, along with a VPN (Proton).
Which of these two systems takes priority regarding location management? I don’t always get consistent results when I change countries on my VPN: sometimes the location updates correctly according to the VPN server, but other times, it stays locked on the location set in Advanced Privacy.
This text was translated from French, so I apologize for any syntax errors.
“Hide my IP” service in Advanced Privacy works as a VPN according to official documentation. Advanced Privacy
Furthermore, e/OS has implemented the OrbotService and org.TorProject infrastructure inside their application, if you decided to install Proton services,maybe there are some redundant protocols which won’t work properly.
If you want to sustain Proton Services ( which I normally also do), what I do its deactivate geolocation and Hide IP from Advanced Security from e/OS and then select the VPN services in Settings for another VPN services ( Proton, ReThink, Athena,etc)
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll probably use your method.
Based on my experience, if an app requests coordinates via GPS, Advanced Privacy takes over. However, if the app determines location through the IP address, my VPN takes priority.
This explains why I get different location results depending on which app I’m using.
Oh, I see. I think that’s due to ip-nftables rules I guess. Some browsers or apps ask for some specific IPs to avoid precisely VPN services or botnet attacks.
You may decide according to the use what’s better!
Quite often, Advanced Security services of e/OS works pretty okey to be honest, I checked what it’s allowed to the user in Termux with some commands the outputs of the fake geolocation and Orbotservice and it works.
