Is Search by Image safe?
Search by Image sends user-selected images and captured page regions to configured reverse-image search engines.
When a user starts a reverse-image search, the extension can collect the chosen image URL, rendered canvas or video content, or a captured region from the page. It uploads image blobs to supported engine endpoints such as Google Images and Pinterest, or opens the configured engine workflow with the selected image data.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 8.5.3. 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>
Schedule its own background tasks
alarms
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
Watch, block and rewrite every request your browser makes
webRequestBlocking
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed search_by_image 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
search_by_image sends data to www.google.com. A widely used service: 153 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- api.pinterest.com
search_by_image sends data to api.pinterest.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.