Is Contextual Google Image Search safe?
Contextual Google Image Search sends selected images or image URLs to Google for reverse-image searches.
When you use the extension's context-menu image search, it opens Google Search by Image with the selected image URL. If the image must be uploaded instead, it converts the clicked image to JPEG data and submits it to Google along with browser identification details.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 3.3.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
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Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Contextual Google Image Search contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- www.google.com/searchbyimage
Contextual Google Image Search sends data to www.google.com/searchbyimage. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- www.google.com/searchbyimage/upload
Contextual Google Image Search sends data to www.google.com/searchbyimage/upload. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.