FakeRadar Is Now a Chrome Extension

The FakeRadar Chrome extension (v1.3.1) is live in the Chrome Web Store as of August 22, 2026.

The friction that actually stopped people

Suspicion about an image online rarely survives inconvenience. The moment you feel something might be AI-generated, you have maybe fifteen seconds of motivation before you move on.

Until now, acting on that suspicion meant: right-clicking the image, saving it, switching to a new tab, navigating to fakeradar.app, finding the upload zone, dragging the file in, waiting. Six steps. Most people don’t do six steps when they’re mid-scroll on their phone or trying to stay in a conversation.

The extension removes all of them. You right-click the image. You choose “Check with FakeRadar.” A result appears in the page as a toast notification. That’s it.

What the extension actually does

The extension adds a context menu item to every image on every page. When you choose it, the image is sent to the same multi-engine AI analysis pipeline that runs on the main site — the same signal detection, the same confidence scoring, the same logic.

A few things worth knowing about how it works in practice:

It finds images under overlays. Platforms like Instagram and Facebook place interaction layers over their images to prevent direct right-clicking. The extension knows how to look through those layers to find the actual image URL. Profile photos and feed images that are normally inaccessible to a context menu work here.

Paste and drag-and-drop work too. If you’ve copied an image to your clipboard, Ctrl+V into the extension popup sends it for analysis. Drag-and-drop also works. Whatever is fastest for you.

It queues analyses started without login. If you trigger an analysis before you’ve signed in, the extension remembers the request and runs it automatically once you authenticate. Your context isn’t lost.

What it deliberately doesn’t do

No video. The extension handles images only. If you need to analyze a video clip, use the main site — Pro users can upload up to 3 minutes / 50 MB directly at fakeradar.app/analyze.

No background scanning. The extension does nothing until you explicitly tell it to. It does not monitor your browsing, scan images as pages load, or collect any passive data. The “read and change all your data on all websites” permission Chrome shows exists so the extension can read the image URL you selected — nothing more.

No separate pricing. There is no extension-specific subscription or limit. Your free or Pro account limits are the same on the extension as they are on the site.

An honest note on the “all sites” permission

When you install, Chrome shows the extension as requiring access to all websites. That sounds alarming. The plain-language explanation: the extension needs to read the URL of the specific image you right-clicked, and on platforms like Instagram and Facebook, that URL is hidden behind an overlay layer that a standard right-click can’t see through.

No data is collected passively. No browsing history is read. Nothing leaves your browser until you explicitly choose “Check with FakeRadar” on a specific image.

Where things stand

Since April, nearly 500 analyses have been run through FakeRadar. June saw 93. July climbed to 115. August — with the month not yet over at the time of writing — is already at 198. That’s roughly a two-times increase over two months, entirely organic, with no paid promotion.

The extension is the first meaningful reduction in friction since the site launched. Whether that translates to sustained growth is something only the next few months will show.

A note on the Enhanced Safe Browsing warning

If Chrome shows a notice saying the extension “isn’t trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing,” that’s expected — it’s a standard notice for any new extension that hasn’t yet reached a certain install threshold. The extension went through Google’s full review to appear in the store. The warning disappears as more people install it.

Feedback matters more than anything

FakeRadar is built by one person. Every message I receive about a bug, a confusing result, a feature that’s missing, or something that worked exactly as hoped — I read it personally. The code that sent you this result is the same code I’m looking at right now.

If the extension does something unexpected, or doesn’t do something you expected it to, I want to know. Negative feedback is more useful than praise at this stage. Reach out through the contact page — it goes directly to me.

The FakeRadar Chrome extension is free to install. Get it from the Chrome Web Store — your existing account limits apply.