Reviews for Search by Image
Search by Image by Armin Sebastian
67 reviews
- I appreciate the functionality and convenience of this add-on, but I have a major concern regarding its use of Russian search engines. The Russian Federation is an aggressor state that launched a war against Ukraine, and its search engines are known to share users' data with state security services. In the settings, there is a "Yandex Host" option that cannot be removed, which effectively forces users to rely on infrastructure from a hostile and untrustworthy jurisdiction.
Using search engines from a country that is actively waging war against another European country is incompatible with basic European values and solidarity. While the add-on is otherwise convenient and effective, this design choice prevents me from giving it a rating higher than 3 stars. I strongly encourage the developer to remove Russian search providers or make them fully optional (disabled by default). - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 19772559, 12 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Chocho22, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by tobbi, 9 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18827259, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ale, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by willo, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17437368, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18553554, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by asham, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14173119, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13146405, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16398748, 3 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17513183, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17458304, 4 years agoIt's Great... when it works, quite often I get oops something went wrong, I hope that gets fixed one day
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13404543, 4 years agoUsed to be a good extension for what it is. A lot of the search engines are garbage and not worth the time it takes to close the tab, but this did what it says until recently. I think container tabs broke it?
- Rated 3 out of 5by Nikita, 4 years agoWhy does the extension suddenly needs access to clipboard for searching images displayed on the pages?
EDIT: I read the page dev linked to and I agree with some other users posting there. This clipboard search needs to be optional or not present at all. We can survive without searching images in clipboard.
But I also agree with the author that extensions seem to access a lot already on browser, so I guess it's up to the users to decide if it's worth it or not. Personally, I've not allowed it permission and disabled auto update for this extension for now. I'll change my rating to 3/5 instead of 1.
I've been using this extension for a while, gave it 5/5 initially, not sure why this clipboard image search was that crucial to add. I suggest breaking support for older browsers and allowing people to turn off access to key areas for certain features. People not upgrading older browsers are already under security threat anyway.Developer response
posted 4 years agoYou can learn more about the new permission request from this thread:
https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image/issues/114 - Rated 3 out of 5by Forxy, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17190503, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17152680, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by mjb, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Александр, 4 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Stefanie, 5 years agoIf you know how to reverse image search via Google Images or TinEye the you don't really need this as it just adds more useless search options to those I've mentioned.