How Do You Bypass TinEye?

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I want to make sure my images are unique and untraceable.

With my header for instance I have cropped the image, changed opacity and added text to it - but at tineye.com it still finds similar versions...

What should I do to get around this?

Thanks in advance :)
 
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Depends on what is in the image, but most likely you can flip the image horizontal in photoshop. Like a mirror image. Of course you will need to remove the text prior and re add it.
 
BTW, Tineye uses coordinates like connect the dots to identify similar pictures. Changing the opaqueness would have little effect.
 
Tinyeye uses the PHP GDLib to get rgb values for different coordinates as well as the overall average of an image. Flipping it horizontally will result in the same rgb avg as well as the having the same exact corner rgb sums.

To get around this flip it horizontally, and also crop the image slightly. What I do is change square images to rectangles and rectangle images to squares. This gives me a unique image almost 100% of the time.
 
Lol it does not do that stuff. You think it's that technical? You think it has the resources to store that much data on every single image on the internet?

It uses the exif data that every image has to search for that data in other photos on the internet.

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The way TinEye works has nothing to do with exif data.

You can test this out yourself by taking exif data from one image and using it with another.

It will not show up as a duplicate of the image you are testing.
 
If you want to "unique-ify" images on a large scale I would highly recommend learning how to use Imagemagick.

You can strip meta data, resize, optimize, crop, rotate etc. all in a completely automated way. It's a command line app but unmatched for working on images in an automated way. It's also free / open source.

Making your images unique is essential not only for Tineye but for getting unique images in to Google Image Search, making unique profile pics for Twitter etc.
 
I know that this is an old thread but I still decided to bump it as I am currently facing the same issue. I didn't want to create a new one because there is no point when this one can be updated.

I have tried all of the above methods and found Google Images to be the easiest to fool. TinEye seems to be impossible to fool. The only way to fool TinEye is to flip the image which isn't ideal if someone has already done that and made uploads.

Any ideas?
 
I can help you my dear friend. Send me a private message with your image and I'll tweak your image making it unique for google or tinyeye.
Best regards.
 
Zoom in by 1.2% and remove EXIF. You can also ad some saturation
 
Well, stretching the image horizontally or vertically more than 5-10% seems to do the trick with tineye, but the image is obviously deformed. I'm sure there are other ways and it's not that difficult.

But aside from using copyrighted photos and making sure that the rights owner won't be able to find them, are there any significant benefits to those images?

I mean will a page containing many 'unique' photos give a SEO boost? Definitely makes sense that it will.. but also, how do you know if you've fooled google images? Seems the only way is to just test it with tineye and then assume google's algo is not as good..
 
kinglion said:
Zoom in by 1.2% and remove EXIF. You can also ad some saturation
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This shit doesn't work so stop spreading bullshit to raise post count.

alexa_s said:
Well, stretching the image horizontally or vertically more than 5-10% seems to do the trick with tineye, but the image is obviously deformed. I'm sure there are other ways and it's not that difficult.

But aside from using copyrighted photos and making sure that the rights owner won't be able to find them, are there any significant benefits to those images?

I mean will a page containing many 'unique' photos give a SEO boost? Definitely makes sense that it will.. but also, how do you know if you've fooled google images? Seems the only way is to just test it with tineye and then assume google's algo is not as good..
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Google is definitely not as good as TinEye in reverse searching images, at least not the version available to the public. With Google some colour changing will do the trick. TinEye easily picks up on this and still finds the original image and or any other site using the same image.

There are many benefits to hiding your images. There are many different uses for images where if you could find a foolproof way to hide them from reverse search tools you'd be sitting on a goldmine. Another aspect of this is if you copy an image from the web and make it unique enough to bypass TinEye then if someone else ends up copying that image you will know they copied it directly from you and nowhere else since they wouldn't be able to find it anywhere else.
 
ShadeDream said:
This shit doesn't work so stop spreading bullshit to raise post count.



Google is definitely not as good as TinEye in reverse searching images, at least not the version available to the public. With Google some colour changing will do the trick. TinEye easily picks up on this and still finds the original image and or any other site using the same image.

There are many benefits to hiding your images. There are many different uses for images where if you could find a foolproof way to hide them from reverse search tools you'd be sitting on a goldmine. Another aspect of this is if you copy an image from the web and make it unique enough to bypass TinEye then if someone else ends up copying that image you will know they copied it directly from you and nowhere else since they wouldn't be able to find it anywhere else.
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Actually thats what i do. I zoom in or out and remove the exif.
 
Interesting. Even warping in photoshop doesn't do the trick for tineye until it's so severe the image is ruined. And with a new image I tried, even 30% horizontal stretching doesn't work. Cool. I think you have to change each pixel color by a non-similar percentage (changing whole image at once doesn't really work) and then distort a little.

Wonder if pinterest has an even more sophisticated AI than tineye, considering you can use your phone camera to find similar product pins.

Actually thats what i do. I zoom in or out and remove the exif.
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Oh for sure symmetrical zooming has no effect, even if it's 1000%. And I don't think tineye even bothers reading exif or hash.
 
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kinglion said:
Actually thats what i do. I zoom in or out and remove the exif.
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Then you must be using some shit photos. I use BatchPurifier to remove EXIF and it doesn't do shit. Zooming in using IfranView doesn't work either. You're either posting bullshit or your images are rare to begin with. Whenever I see people posting about removing EXIF data to hide from reverse image search I laugh out loud because these people obviously don't know what they're talking about.
 
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