IMVU has a hide location option in IMVU Next, but it only works in IMVU Next. Mobile and desktop users can still view your location.

To get around this and hide your location in all IMVU Clients:

Go here: https://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_myaccount.php
Combine a state in the US with a country other than the US, the system freaks the fuck out and sets your location to blank.
For the location, I used: 254_AL
Which translates to: Sint Maarten, Alabama
Alabama is in the US, not in Sint Maarten, so IMVU's server chokes on the value.
Right click on the location drop down and inspect element.
Expand <select name="user_from"> if it is not already expanded.
Replace "<option value="223_AL">United States - Alabama</option>" with "<option value="254_AL">254_AL</option>"
Then choose "254_AL" in the drop down and click "update profile".

Your location within IMVU's systems should now be a blank value.

This will also work with other country numbers other than 254. Replace 254 with another number less than 255, not 223. Add an underscore after the number, followed by a state abbreviation in in caps.

I think just the turning off location visibility does work on classic & mobile both.

This h4c|< was actually requested by multiple members of our discord. They could not get the setting to carry over cross-client and their help tickets with IMVU customer support were dead ends.

I just put Antarctica as my location, no one knows what or who’s in there, so you remain a mystery

Yes I finally checked to see if my location was visible to others on classic client & it did show lol

how do we use
For the location, I used: 254_AL
Which translates to: Sint Maarten, Alabama

I only get the dropdown list for me it does not allot to type anything in location box

You have to edit the HTML on the page, via your browser's dev tools.

Okay I attempted a few times & on my classic client it showed Saint Martin, AL in instead of blank value.

I ended up with Pakistan, AK

very interesting

The html coding changes can be done by exploring the page gives you a section of editing the html code as dom directs. Works out cool tho.

thats actually scary that people would do this much just to find people on a semi kid friendly game (i say semi since ap exists and alot of kids still exist in the game)