imgur Uploader Chrome Extension Analysis
Video & Image DownloadersChrome extension ID: lcpkicdemehhmkjolekhlglljnkggfcf
This extension allows users to upload images and screenshots directly to Imgur through the browser's context menu. It supports both anonymous uploads and authenticated account uploads, and includes features like area-based capture.
Overview
Installs
20K+
Rating
★ 3.7
151 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Video & Image Downloaders
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
The listing positions the product as a utility for anonymous or account-based image and screenshot uploading to Imgur via right-click. It frames itself as a functional, less feature-rich replacement for a legacy extension, emphasizing ongoing maintenance and compatibility updates.
Inferred product pattern
Utility extension with a focus on web integration, struggling with maintenance and API changes.
Review-backed pain points
Users frequently report that the extension stops working, requiring manual toggling in the extension manager or complete reinstallation to trigger the context menu again.
Observed feature gaps
Broken account authorization (OAuth) preventing image management, failure of background uploads, and lack of consistent reliability for long-term users.
- Power users
- Content creators
- General web users
- Uploading images to Imgur
- Taking screenshots for web sharing
- Managing images on Imgur albums
- Ease of use
- Simplicity
- Effective when functioning
- Broken authentication/OAuth flow
- Upload failures
- Extension disappearing from context menu
- Requires frequent reinstallation
- Performance complaints detected
- None; the tool is free, but users are frustrated by the technical lack of function rather than cost.
Support
No active support channel is mentioned; users express frustration over lack of updates and persistent bugs.
Reliability
High: Users report frequent breakage, the extension failing to appear in menus, and recurring authentication errors.
Privacy
None current, though a historical mention of malware was noted in older reviews (2016).
- Free usage observed
- Login needed for core features
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 2
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Version: 2.4.1
- Size: 21.58KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Privacy policy: https://github.com/graemephi/imgur-uploader/wiki