# Discourse User Location

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-user-location/392003
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [December 23, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-user-location/392003 "2025-12-23T15:23:51Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-user-location/392003/3 "2025-12-23T17:03:10Z")

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The basic idea is that this can be used for fraud prevention, so users are not supposed to opt out.

However, what does work is:

- create a group “location opt out” which users can freely join
- add this group to the `user_location_exempt_groups` setting

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