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Chrome Extension Brings 'View Image' Button Back (9to5google.com)
Google recently removed the convenient "view image" button from its search results as a result of a lawsuit with stock-photo agency Getty. Thankfully, one day later, a developer created an extension that brings it back. 9to5Google reports: It's unfortunate to see that button gone, but an easy to use Chrome extension brings it back. Simply install the extension from the Chrome Web Store, and then any time you view an image on Google Image Search, you'll be able to open that source image. You can see the functionality in action in the video below. The only difference we can see with this extension versus the original functionality is that instead of opening the image on the same page, it opens it in a new tab. The extension is free, and it will work with Chrome for Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, or anywhere else the full version of Chrome can be used. 9to5Google has a separate post with step-by-step instructions to get the Google Images "view image" button back.
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Hi,
I can confirm the extension doesn't in any way report back on people infringing on our IP rights. It's totally safe to use!
Ebenezer Getty
VP of Special Circumstances
Getty
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Also for Firefox too as can be quickly found out.
Makes it harder for google to block should they wish.
No because that just opens Google's compressed, small-size thumbnail, not the full version from the web host (source).
I'm surprised Google left the link to the full image in the HTML source, allowing this workaround to exist in the first place.
You're doing it wrong.
Left-click on the image so it opens into the larger image where "view image" button used to be.
Now right-click on the larger image and select "view image".
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I'm surprised Google left the link to the full image in the HTML source, allowing this workaround to exist in the first place.
Then you are the dumbest fucking person on the planet. Google didn't want it. Google didn't care. Google took out the button because of a lawsuit. If the lawsuit people don't like it, they can sue The Internet. I'm not surprised they left it easy. Google doesn't want to lock it down. Why would you think Google would lock it down well?
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If you don't want them on Google. Fine, just remove them.
Lol. Really hysterical.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Not always easy when the image is on an image-heavy page, so you end up having to scroll through 50 other images that all have to load in first.
Or maybe the page Google indexed is dynamic, so by now the image that was cached on page 2 is on page 41 and you'll never find it again.
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This was expected.
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Been looking for a good excuse to dump Google for a while now. Image results from Bing (via DDG) are better anyway, and the regular search seems at least adequate.
Google images previews the full sized image in the window anyway. Simply right click and click view image or whatever your browser's equivalent is and you get taken to the original anyway.
No need to load yet another extension.
True.
Regretfully they have removed the indication of the pixel size from the list of 8 thumbnails so there is a fair chance you get nothing bigger.
Luckily you can during the original search still specify a certain minimum size.
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That doesn't always work. Sometimes the larger image is the (hotlinked) original image, but sometimes it's the same size as the thumbnail, and is either an image hosted in gstatic.com, or a base64 encoded data URL. It seems to me the larger an image is, the less likely it is to be hotlinked from Google's image search pages.
Oops, the original size has moved to below the preview.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
For those reluctant to share everything with Google, the extension also works with Chromium.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Every click is an unwanted interruption, making the task at hand harder and harder and harder.... and harder... although after a while, it isn't hard anymore!
The real issue could be having a browser maker being the same entity as the content provider. AOL anybody?
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
They should bring back the old design. I hate the fact that the images do not line up nicely and that I can not see immediately from what site they are. Yes, I know that I can scroll over it. That takes more time.
I also hate the continuous webpages in general. On Firefox there is Old Google Image Search
I have yet have to find a website where continues pages are an advantage.
A workaround is to add "&sout=1" to your search.
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It works the way the google search did and lets you open the image on the same page.
Who's gonna be too lazy to right-click and image and choose "View Image" from the resulting dropdown, but not too lazy to seek out and install an extension?
Yeah, the button on the page was great, it gave lazy people a one-click option, but the two-click option still works.
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Considering that you can still right-click and select View Image from the context menu (two clicks vs the one the button on the page allowed for), I'd say yes, anyone interested in this extension is probably too lazy to click twice.
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Okay, so how were you seeing the View Image button in the first place, then?
All that changes here is that you have to right click before you left click now.
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"We'll just quickly code up the button and put it on the Google apps store aaannnnnd it's gone!"
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
The only way to protect yourself is to avoid any clicks or use of the company's products and its website.
I usually use image search to find an image to hotlink in Slack or a web forum. The View Image button would show you whether the image had hotlink protection. Viewing the image by right-clicking does not.
I guess you’re too adult to have thought of that.
And how exactly does that prevent you from clicking the link in the summary to look at the extension yourself?
You've never gone to visit the page an image was originally from and found it to be an absolutely MASSIVE portfolio so it's like doing the Google Image search all over again, just with even more crud thrown into the mix?
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"View Image" in the context menu doesn't take you to the page the image is on, it takes you to the image. See here for simple steps to try this for yourself.
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Okay, there's been a misunderstanding, then. I was replying to a discussion about how pointless the View Image button was because you could just right-click the image in Google's results, then that it wasn't a problem to just open the page it's on and get it from there.
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I just went back and read the thread again and I think the misunderstanding started a bit before I posted, then. innocent_white_lamb, who you replied to initially, gave the same steps I did.
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Just use Bing images instead. Their view source image button it still there! ;)
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The "misunderstanding" is to just presume that bro-whatever is literate. He can read, but he's aliterate. He knows how, but won't do it. So you think there is a misunderstanding, but really he just has no idea what the conversation is and even after using the internet for years, he still doesn't understand that the context menu "view image" only shows the preview, and the google feature linked not to the preview but to the full size original. And, that they cache those links and even after the page that links to it goes away, the link to the original images are usually still valid even after the "page" that included the links has changed.
There isn't really much to "understand," so much as, he'd have to stop knowing he's right long to actually read a paragraph to find out how it works. Never going to happen. Give him ten more years, he still won't know how to internet.
Try reading it another 20 or 30 times, but actually read the words instead of skimming them. Were you one of those people who took a "speed reading" class and lost 15 IQ points, permanently? Because you'd no longer be capable of reading directions and following them carefully?
var image = object.querySelector('img');
and just a little farther down, on line 73, we set the URL for the View Image button we're putting back on the page:
viewImageLink.setAttribute('href', image.src);
Oh, look at that, we're using the src attribute of the preview image.
I've been doing it manually, the way I described in my previous posts, for years. Much longer than that button has existed, mind you, and I will continue doing it that way now that the button is gone.
Now that your better has pointed out that the extension is literally doing the exact same thing as right clicking the image and clicking View Image, do you want to go sit down and shut the fuck up?
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You're doing it wrong.
Left-click on the image so it opens into the larger image where "view image" button used to be.
Now right-click on the larger image and select "view image".
So, step one given in that post is to left click the thumbnail. Step two is to right click the image (after clicking the thumbnail to reveal the image) and click "View Image". Yeah, those are the steps I gave. I wasn't quite as explicit about clicking the thumbnail but, then, I didn't think I needed to be since it had already been said.
Try a little humility once in a while, it's a better look for you (and, indeed, most people) than arguing against facts.
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Left-click on the image so it opens into the larger image
So, step one given in that post is to left click the thumbnail
The problem is that this opens the entire source web page. That page may contains 100s of other images you have to load and scan through to find the one you want. Or it may no longer contain the target image, yet that image still resides on their servers so would have been accessible by the original View Image link.
I haven't looked at the addon code like you, but a simple test shows it works sort-of as advertised.
- Search for cat in Google images
- Left-click first image in results, for me an allegedly 5360x3560 image from pexels.com
- Right-click > Show image in new tab, shows 276x183 thumbnail from cache
- Click addon's View Image button, shows a 1000x664 image from hir6.hu
Note, I had to select the second 'similar image' then back to the first to get the addon's link to set itself properly.
Clicking the thumbnail opens the image details, where the View Image button (and the preview image) would originally have been. Left clicking the preview image will take you to the source page, but right clicking it will let you view it. That is the image from which the extension sources the URL for the View Image button, so clicking the button gives you the very same image. It is true that some larger images are replaced with smaller ones for preview, but the method the extension uses to source the original can't work around that, either. Both methods are functionally equivalent.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
If you're insinuating that what's worked just fine for me since before the "View Image" button was even ever implemented "doesn't work" then... no, it does not. And, if it does, the code on Github is not the code that goes into the extension, because the code in Github is doing exactly what I said above.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Go review the source code for the extension. I did and it's sourcing the URL for the "View Image" button from the preview image. If the right-click method won't take you to the true original image, neither will the extension. As for the now-removed View Image button, I don't know if it actually behaved differently than the extension because I never used it. But, again, do actually review the source code for the extension.
As for whether or not I "know how to internet", I'm a developer, I've been programming literally since the age of 5 and have been doing web development since the 90's. I know very well "how to internet", thank you.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
- Search for cat in Google images
- Left-click first image in results, for me an allegedly 5360x3560 image from pexels.com
- Right-click > Show image in new tab, shows 276x183 thumbnail from cache
Funny, when I do the same (for example, here), I do see a handful of examples of that issue (including your 5360x3560 gray and white cat hosted be Pexels) but, by and far, right-clicking and selecting View Image takes you to the original. It may well be that all of the images I've ever grabbed using this method have been pointing directly to the original (as the vast majority do) as I've honestly never seen this before today.
In either case, by your own admission the View Image button provided by the addon isn't linking to the original either.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
What I would prefer is a plug-in or other permanent configuration which blocks Getty (and Pinterest) from my search results. Their stock photos just pollute the search results.