Reviews for Disable Google Lens
Disable Google Lens by poeyfarre
Review by TRoss
Rated 1 out of 5
by TRoss, 8 months agoUnfortunately, same experience as the reviewer Adramelia. The add-on used to work great – truly a five-star thing! – but now I just keep getting an error page with a blue monster fishing. :(
46 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by random11, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16792125, 5 months agoIn the last three months does not work.
Please try to fix it , because Google Lens is very bad.
Thank you. - Rated 1 out of 5by malau, 6 months agoIt just takes me to an empty page with Google Lens on the tab title.
- Rated 5 out of 5by vghost, 7 months agojust wanted to submit an up-to-date review, this add-on is working for me as of april 20th 2024 also google if you're reading this knock it off nobody wants your smelly lens app it's bad and it fails on every level to provide the services people actually go to image search for. you did a bad job and you should feel bad. gj add-on guy tho 👍
- Rated 1 out of 5by Adramelia, 8 months agoIt doesn't work anymore. I get an error page with a blue monster fishing that says :
"Tip: Try entering a descriptive word in the search box.
Your search did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Try different keywords."
It's sad, it used to be my favorite Add-on. Now I have to find something else :( - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13437413, 9 months agoI've been happily using this supplement since it was released, but unfortunately in the past few days I've noticed that it doesn't work at all! :(
I drag any image into the image search engine, I search for a higher resolution version of any image, there are no results.
Until now there were search results, now there is nothing at all.
The result is just a fishing monster animation.
Did Google change something or is the extension not working properly?
This was a very important tool for me, I always needed it a lot.
What can be done now?
Thank you in advance for your answer!
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Thanks for your help!
I tried it, but unfortunately it doesn't work even after deleting the cookies. :(
I really need this device, I hope it can get better soon.Developer response
posted 9 months agoit still works for me, so as usual they must be doing A/B testing causing it to not work on other people's computers. which makes it difficult to try and fix since i cant reproduce it not working on my computer locally to debug the issue. my only suggestion unfortunately would be to just wait it out and hopefully it will just resolve on its own, or try clearing your cookies/cache to force them to give you a different cookie which might fetch the working version. - Rated 5 out of 5by Marc, 9 months agoThis is an amazing extension that allows you to use the old and original 'Google Image Search' without having to deal with the much hated 'Google Lens'.
- Rated 5 out of 5by zWolfrost, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Danylo, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by glaurossi, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Iranardo da Silva Waked Pontes, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18089680, a year agoThis makes Google image search work the way it used to.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17462219, a year agoWorks perfectly. Now I can get the old search by image back.
- Rated 5 out of 5by krisCXP, a year agoI hate Google Lens and love Google Image Search. Thanks for that extension! It works great.
Edit: it stopped working great when used with Search by Image on Google add-on (context menu button to search by image). Or maybe that add-on no longer works at all because of changes made by google? I don't know. - Rated 1 out of 5by CaptainFrydog, a year agoHow is this a thing for Firefox when, as far as I can see, Firefox does not have a "Search with Google Lens" option.
Developer response
posted a year agoboth google.com and images.google.com allow you to 'search with google lens' directly on those two sites -- this extension overrides the 'google lens' results provided by those sites and redirects the results back to how it used to be. it isn't meant to modify the behavior of anything in particular to firefox.
for example, without this extension, if you were to go to images.google.com and click the 'search by image' camera, and upload an image, it will show google lens results. however, if you install this extension, and do the same thing, it will show results like how it used to be (and not show google lens results) - Rated 3 out of 5by MajaLange, a year agoMy original (one-star) review, based on my own misperception of what the extension was designed to do (see edits below):
"It doesn't do what I personally wanted it to do. I found out how to disable Lens in Chrome, and it turned everything back to how it used to be before Lens, but this extension doesn't do that.
What I wanted was to be able, like I used to be, to right-click an image in Image Search Results and select "Search image with Google" (or whatever it is in English; I get it in Danish), which would open a collection of that exact image in all available sizes. After getting the add-on, I still can't do that. :/"
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EDIT after a helpful response from the developer:
"Thank you for the advice, developer - it worked! It takes one more click than it used to, but I can live with that. :) But couldn't you somehow incorporate that function into Disable Google Lens? Then I'd give it five stars. As it stands now, I don't really know how to rate it. I mean, I'd like to give YOU good feedback for helping me, but your add-on (or extension; I don't know the difference) didn't help me at all, and its name and description made me think that it would."
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EDIT after another response:
"Thank you for writing again. I understand pretty much nothing of your clarification, haha, but I've decided to change my rating to three stars as a compromise between the fact that I believe the extension probably does what you promise it does, because you seem like an upright and competent person, and the fact that I don't know from first-hand experience that it does (since, like I said, I don't even understand what its purpose is). I mean, I can't bring myself to leave my rating at one star when you've been so kind to me and even solved my problem! I actually FEEL like giving the extension five stars to show my appreciation of you as a person, but I don't think that would be fair to prospective users. Anyway, with your other ratings, I think you'll be okay. :) Again, thank you so much."Developer response
posted a year agotry this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/
after installing, go into the options and disable all search engines except for google. this will bring back the functionality i think you might be looking for
edit: no worries about the rating. the main purpose of this particular extension was to override the disable lens results -specifically- when accessed via 'search by image' on google's own website, rather than creating a context menu item (since there was already an extension that could do that). just wanted to clarify. - Rated 5 out of 5by Drace, a year agoVital to be able to actually use Google Images as they continue to push their godawful new Lens search.
[EDIT: This review was originally negative but I have corrected it to my new opinion. The developer pointed out that I had not updated the extension and that was why it was not working. I feel very silly now.]Developer response
posted a year agoare you using the latest version 0.1.2? it broke a couple of days ago and i had to rewrite it to make it work again, it is still working on my end at the moment so unfortunately it might be A/B testing