Chrome Extension Brings 'View Image' Button Back (9to5google.com) 80
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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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!
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Perhaps try it yourself before you tell me I'm rong?
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You are wrong you fucking moron. And somebody already corrected you, but you don't understand how the computers work so you didn't comprehend it.
Yes, once in awhile the image is so small that the preview was actually the original. But usually not. Fucking duh.
The feature they removed would never have even existed if what you said worked the way you think it does.
Be wrong before being corrected, it is the best you can do. But please stop continuing to be wrong even after your betters have corrected you. Yes,
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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 th
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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 that prevents you from clicking the summary? (Score:2)
And how exactly does that prevent you from clicking the link in the summary to look at the extension yourself?
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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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The real issue could be having a browser maker being the same entity as the content provider. AOL anybody?
Eric's theorem strikes again (Score:3)
"For every technology, there is equal and opposite hacker technology"
Re:Eric's theorem strikes again (Score:5, Insightful)
Not really. There's nothing of any technical interest here, just a rather silly lawsuit by people who seem not to understand what it means to publish an image on the web.
They blame Google for people finding and stealing their images. They seem not to realise that if people can find their images online - which is presumably the point of publishing online - that means they'll be able to steal them.
Obfuscation/DRM of still-frame images will always be a losing battle. You can use technical measures to stop hotlinking (inspect HTTP referer header, or split image into several pieces and reassemble in HTML, or constantly shift URLs, etc), but there's no technical way to prevent stealing. Perhaps they could go as far as to use DRM technologies like EME to make it tougher, but it still wouldn't stop a determined thief. Insisting Google get rid of their View Image button is especially laughable.
Firefox too! (Score:4, Interesting)
Also for Firefox too as can be quickly found out.
Makes it harder for google to block should they wish.
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Who is Number One?
Re:Firefox too! (Score:5, Informative)
Also for Firefox too as can be quickly found out.
Makes it harder for google to block should they wish.
You can automatically convert Chrome (and Opera) extensions to firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... [mozilla.org]
They all use the Same API now anyway.
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Thanks. Had no idea they were that compatible.
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They weren't until Mozilla turned Fx into a clone of Chrome. I'm surprised you even have to convert them.
Re: No need for an extension (Score:1)
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.
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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".
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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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All that changes here is that you have to right click before you left click now.
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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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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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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?
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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 536
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- 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 [google.com]), 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
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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 lin
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As for whether or not I "know how to internet", I'm a developer, I've been programmin
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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.
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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?
Why not just block images from Getty? (Score:3, Insightful)
If you don't want them on Google. Fine, just remove them.
Hysterical. (Score:1)
Lol. Really hysterical.
Yeah. Big surprise. (Score:2)
This was expected. [slashdot.org]
Fuck 'em, too late. (Score:1)
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.
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Europe is much fonder of MS than Google these days, who knows why. Also, MS is more willing to stand up to governments and fight these things. Ultimately this is not about Getty at all, it is about the willingness of Google to do anything, internationally, when demanded by a local government.
I'm not even in Europe, why did my features change? Because google doesn't care if governments use them to harm me. They just don't care.
Irrelevant because... (Score:2)
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.
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Please note that is sometimes true, but often not. As stated it is simply false.
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Actually it's been 100% true for me. Any time Google has failed to load a full sized image, the Show Original button either resulted in a server timeout or a shoddy redirection page.
Sometimes the Show Original button resulted in a shoddy redirect that the "View Image" menu option didn't. So you're right it didn't work 100% of the time for me, it actually worked 110% of the time.
Chromium (Score:2)
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Or just search using duckduckgo... (Score:2)
It works the way the google search did and lets you open the image on the same page.
Really? (Score:2)
Yeah, the button on the page was great, it gave lazy people a one-click option, but the two-click option still works.
For now (Score:2)
"We'll just quickly code up the button and put it on the Google apps store aaannnnnd it's gone!"
Only Certain Proection from This is: (Score:2)
The only way to protect yourself is to avoid any clicks or use of the company's products and its website.
Simple fix... (Score:2)
Just use Bing images instead. Their view source image button it still there! ;)
What I really want is ... (Score:2)
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.