[AMENDMENT] is the "Spoofing GPS" advise suggesting something illegal?

[dbrockman]

[AMENDMENT] is the "Spoofing GPS" advise suggesting something illegal?

[fcmss]

I don't know about any particular laws relating to this but I think it's safe to assume that this would be illegal

How can you assume it is if you don't know laws? Best you can do is look up laws in your country and give feedback, but even then, the laws are changing from country to country.
But the tip you're referring to doesn't ask to pinpoint another address of someone you don't know, it's here to tell you that you should spoof it to a near city. Could point to a park, a parking lot, a forest, whatever you want it to be.
And you're not broadcasting signals that mess with GPS, you're spoofing your location to apps that requests it.
Cheers.

[dbrockman]

Ok, yeah. If it's something that you do locally on your own device then it's obviously ok.

It was the description that made me think that the advice was to spoof GPS for anyone in the vicinity.

It does say

Consider Spoofing GPS in home vicinity
Even if you yourself never use social media, there is always going to be others who are not as careful, and could reveal your location.

I'm not sure how to read that as a local config on my device.

How do you interpret that?

A quick google, just out of curiosity, suggests that even just owning a device that can disrupt radio signals like cell phone or gps can get you a fine or jail time where I live. Just googled out of curiosity 🙂