Lizard insurance app mandates you give location permission, refusing access to the rest of the app otherwise. I have 0 intention of giving them this but so far have failed to find a phone number to call them (their mobile website tells me to use the app).
Until I find a different company run by living, real people, my current intention is to use the app to manage my insurance in the meantime. I don’t want to give them my location, even if it’s only while using the app, so how do I get the app to think it has my location when it actually doesn’t?
inb4 just use a computer: nah. It’s about spite at this point.
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The option you’re looking for is “mock location,” and it is buried in the developer options in the settings menu on your phone.
You will probably have to enable the developer options menu on your phone, which is done by tapping the build number in “about phone” five times. You will get a popup message when developer options are enabled, and then the Developer Options entry will appear under “System” (at least on recent Android versions) in your settings menu.
Note that this is not a complete solution. You still need a mock location app, which you will give permission via this screen to override your phone’s reported GPS location.
And to top it off, some apps will not let you use them at all with Developer Options enabled, though if OP’s insurance app is as bad as most I’ve seen, it’ll be too shitty to detect it.
Mock my GPS (mock the GPS and Network location providers) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.warren_bank.mock_location/
Hide Mock Location (Xposed module to hide the mock location setting) https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.thepiemonster.hidemocklocation/
For now… Over last few years less and less corpo apps work on non GPS phones
Any suggestion for a legit mock app?
These seem ok.:
From fdroid/neo:
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.github.warren_bank.mock_location
https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/cl.coders.faketraveler/
Edit: I don’t live in Washington DC.
So, I guess it does the trick.
Ty
I use Fake GPS, works as advertised.
Ty
Negative, unfortunately. I’ve never had a use case to mess with the option.
I found a few on github, though. I imagine any open source tools are probably… less… likely to be thinly disguised vectors to pwning your device.
Okie dokie
A sudden interest in cheating at pokemon go might benefit you. The majority of those spoof tools don’t modify the game, they convince your whole phone it’s somewhere else and the game goes along with it. It’s a constantly evolving cat and mouse game, so there’s a ton of tools that might not work for the game, but would still work fine for your purposes. I’d try the easiest method you find despite any warnings that it doesn’t work with pokemon go anymore.
There are mock location apps that spoof your location, but it might be a lot of extra work to turn on the spoofing before opening the app each time. It also doesn’t prevent leaks if it does stuff in the background.
You could also try using the mobile site?
Out of curiosity, have you tried setting your mobile browser to Desktop mode to view the page?
XPL-EX can do that and much more. Needs root though
May I ask what fake location do you intent to provide? And have you considered that it might invalidate your claims? Like, you say your car had an accident but your location says you’re in Antarctica, and they use that to weasel out of coverage.
I don’t think OP is that stupid. I’d guess they’ll provide a reasonably close fake location, since their home address is almost certainly known to the insurer.
At that point you might as well just give the real location data, just only when the app is in use
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Its impossible to avoid giving your location data, the fucking photo you send them will have location data unless you scrub the exif. Your phone tracks exactly where you are in a fucking store every time you enter one. You’re naive if you think they don’t already know a shitton about you and where you are when you open the app
why would my phone track anything other than what cell tower it’s connected to with location data off?
Bluetooth
why would I have that battery draining abomination on?
android and fake GPS.
Maybe run it in bluestacks on a computer?
You can enable developer mode and use the Lockito app to spoof your location.
Can you choose to only spoof it for specific apps?
Just access your account through the browser, and then change insurance companies to one which doesn’t insist on harvesting your data.
last time i had to do this; i got around it by using another app that provided fake gps coordinates of your choice.
for this you have to be sure that just the GPS location is being used and not Google, which can have the location from nearby wifi/Bluetooth devices
Upvote for spite!
U can use rethink DNS and route only certain apps to a VPN
VPN maybe?
Different os probably. Graphene. Dunno.
