Is Google Lens Image Search safe?
Google Lens Image Search sends user-selected image URLs to reverse-image-search providers from the context menu.
When you choose one of its image-search context menu items, it takes the selected image's source URL and opens a provider search page with that URL encoded in the query. The URL is sent to the chosen provider, including Google Lens, Bing, Yandex, or TinEye.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.0.0. 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
<all_urls>
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Start, monitor and manage your downloads
downloads
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Google Lens 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.bing.comwidely used
Google Lens Image Search sends data to www.bing.com. A widely used service: 29 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- yandex.com
Google Lens Image Search sends data to yandex.com. 9 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- lens.google.com
Google Lens Image Search sends data to lens.google.com. 8 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- tineye.com
Google Lens Image Search sends data to tineye.com. 8 other extensions we have analysed send data here.