U can use rethink DNS and route only certain apps to a VPN
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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.
android and fake GPS.
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.
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
Upvote for spite!
Maybe run it in bluestacks on a computer?
Out of curiosity, have you tried setting your mobile browser to Desktop mode to view the page?
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.
Any suggestion for a legit mock app?
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
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
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
Different os probably. Graphene. Dunno.
VPN maybe?
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
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?