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Is Yandex.com safe as a reverse image search engine?
I wouldn't upload personal photos to any of these. They are fine for general reverse image search.
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Can't upload images to Yandex when using image reverse search
Why has Yandex reverse image search gotten so terrible lately? : searchengines
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I can still upload images and it shows some results on the Search page, but on the Similar Images page it keeps loading infinitely and I've been frustrated with this for months because it was one of the only good reverse image searches I found. I don't know if one day this problem can be fixed. (The drawing is just an example)
Hi,
Is it safe to use Yandex.com as a reverse image search? Do they save the picture you are uploading?
I can't find it explicitly in their privacy policy, but I want to be sure.
Thanks!
I wouldn't upload personal photos to any of these. They are fine for general reverse image search.
No reverse image search is safe for your own photos. I wouldn't use it. Not yandex, not Google... none. The moment a photo of you gets uploaded to the (public) internet, it'll potentially be always there. Forever. So no. It should be fine if you reverse search generic photos, or photos you took from the internet...
On the other hand, yandex is russia's Google. So... I'd avoid it as I avoid Google. If you must use one of their services, as sometimes it's necessary to use big companies services such as them, I prefer using yandex over Google. First of all because Google is in the USA, and boicot the usa and all it's fucked up privacy history! And second, Google has way more data on me than yandex (compartimentalization!!!). There are other big companies such as Microsoft, yahoo... your can jump between them and don't let one have all your data
It's like it doesn't even try anymore. Returning results that have absolutely nothing to do with the uploaded image.
When attempting to upload an image to Yandex when using image reverse search, nothing happens after clicking in the camera button. This camera button used to open a popover with a button to open the file dialog and a text input to paste an image URL. It's been like this for several weeks and I already tried with other browsers and tried also disabling extensions, but the problem remains. What could be this?