google image condoms
May 5, 2011 6:25 AM Subscribe
for web designers and anyone else looking to browse for images, google images has been a savior... but it can be a bit sketchy. redirects and popups can send you way off course when you click to see the original image. is google images unsafe for the unsavvy surfer? is google helping to spread malware and viruses?
have no fear, a few tools are out there to protect you!
the google image ripper AND... the google image ripper - and for the fancyphiles amongst us, this one.
now you can surf images with confidence.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Seriously, a self-link sandwich? It's not any less of a bannable offense if you slip your own link in between other people's. -- cortex
"is google helping to spread malware and viruses? "
Really...?
You could just say "are html links helping to spread malware and viruses?", it makes about as much sense...
posted by tomswift at 6:31 AM on May 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Really...?
You could just say "are html links helping to spread malware and viruses?", it makes about as much sense...
posted by tomswift at 6:31 AM on May 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Yeah, I'm not really sure I understand this. This is a tool to help me steal images from the Web?
Why wouldn't I just use Creative Commons and get high-resolution originals without ripping off artists or breaking the law?
posted by ixohoxi at 6:31 AM on May 5, 2011
Why wouldn't I just use Creative Commons and get high-resolution originals without ripping off artists or breaking the law?
posted by ixohoxi at 6:31 AM on May 5, 2011
yah, tom, really. when you click to view the original image and get redirected to a site full of popups and fake virus warnings... i call that "helping to spread" confusion at the very least. but apparently the only time anyone uses google images is to steal images... ... ... or view them... ... and there exists tools that allow you to view the images in full size much easier than how google has it setup... so... that actually does make sense.
at the very least you can surf porn images with less interruption - that should make you happy.
posted by ggggarret at 6:39 AM on May 5, 2011
at the very least you can surf porn images with less interruption - that should make you happy.
posted by ggggarret at 6:39 AM on May 5, 2011
Part of the strength of Google Image Search is the interface, which allows you to browse an enormous amount of material quickly. Nice idea, but this would simply slow me down too much.
posted by interrupt at 6:49 AM on May 5, 2011
posted by interrupt at 6:49 AM on May 5, 2011
Jah really. I've hit this on non-porn GIS searches. There are sites that cloak and show an image to Google's Crawler, but when you click on the image in the results page it redirects to a page that's somewhat hard to close that appears to perform a Windows virus scan (I'm on a Mac, so this is amusing to me. Not so much to a non-savvy Windows user). It then says, surprise, you have a virus and tries to get you to download an executable.
I'm on a moderately hardened installation of Chrome. If I hit this/these? sites in an old, unpatched IE, I would want to run a real virus scan after.
I've reported the bad results to Google.
posted by zippy at 6:51 AM on May 5, 2011 [2 favorites]
I'm on a moderately hardened installation of Chrome. If I hit this/these? sites in an old, unpatched IE, I would want to run a real virus scan after.
I've reported the bad results to Google.
posted by zippy at 6:51 AM on May 5, 2011 [2 favorites]
I'm with ixohoxi. Flickr's Creative Commons search has a tremendous amount of stuff.
posted by doctornemo at 6:52 AM on May 5, 2011
posted by doctornemo at 6:52 AM on May 5, 2011
I'm obsessive about album art.
For example, if James Brown's In The Jungle Groove has an ugly cover - which it does - I'll go looking for a more striking image of The Godfather to embed in the mp3s.
But it must be from the 1969-1971 time period covered by that compilation. And, for quality's sake, in as large a size as possible.
Furthermore, that album's "The Funky Drummer" ought - in honor of The Funky Drummer himself - show an image of Clyde Stubblefield, preferably while in the act of funky drumming.
So I use Google Images a lot. And, as a Chrome user, get that fake Windows virus scan thingy a lot.
So this looks like it may be very useful. Thanks for the post.
posted by Trurl at 6:57 AM on May 5, 2011
For example, if James Brown's In The Jungle Groove has an ugly cover - which it does - I'll go looking for a more striking image of The Godfather to embed in the mp3s.
But it must be from the 1969-1971 time period covered by that compilation. And, for quality's sake, in as large a size as possible.
Furthermore, that album's "The Funky Drummer" ought - in honor of The Funky Drummer himself - show an image of Clyde Stubblefield, preferably while in the act of funky drumming.
So I use Google Images a lot. And, as a Chrome user, get that fake Windows virus scan thingy a lot.
So this looks like it may be very useful. Thanks for the post.
posted by Trurl at 6:57 AM on May 5, 2011
i use google image to research stuff i can't get as stock photography. that's why i use the WORLD OF TRUST (WOT) Firefox extension. it marks links on web searches as safe or not. after getting hit with malware from a cooking blog that got me redirected to some chinese "software" site, i've come to depend on this extension.
posted by liza at 7:14 AM on May 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by liza at 7:14 AM on May 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
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