Is Reverse Image Search safe?
Reverse Image Search uploads user-selected screenshots to Google Images and sends clicked image URLs to Google or TinEye.
When you use its capture action, it lets you select an area of the current page, captures that image, and posts the PNG to Google Images. When you use an image context-menu search, it opens Google Images or TinEye with the clicked image's URL in the query.
Who publishes itchYer - 4 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
chYer - 4 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
4 other listings published from this account, 162k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.3.0. 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 www.google.com
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage/upload
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Reverse 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.comwidely used
Reverse Image Search sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- tineye.com
Reverse Image Search sends data to tineye.com. 8 other extensions we have analysed send data here.