21 OSINT browser extensions to help your investigations

This article first appeared as a LinkedIn post by Alex Lozano, and has been adapted into an article with the author's permission

Alex Lozano is the founder and CEO of Cibergy, an investigation and cyber intelligence consultancy that helps its clients in accessing verified and corroborated information on social media and the internet

OSINT (open-source intelligence) tools are free and publicly available, and they are essential to investigative journalism. Many OSINT tools come as browser extensions, so they can be used straight from a web browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

Here is a useful list of 21 OSINT browser extensions for you to try out.

uBlock Origin - Blocks ads and trackers for many web browsers

RevEye - Reverse image search for Chrome and Firefox

Exif Viewer - View metadata for Chrome and Firefox

Wayback Machine - Access archived web pages for many web browsers

User-Agent Switcher - Modify your user-agent for Chrome and Firefox

Shodan - Retrieve website information or many web browsers

Hunchly - Capture and organise web pages for Chrome

Cookie AutoDelete - Control cookies for Chrome and Firefox

Privacy Badger - Block tracking scripts for many web browsers

Vortimo - Analyse web content for Chrome

Fireshot - Full web page screenshots for many web browsers

Sputnik - Search digital identifiers for Chrome and Firefox

Forensic OSINT - Full web page screenshots for Chrome

Bot Sentinel - Detect bots on X for many web browsers

Google Translate - Translate text for Chrome

DownThemAll - Bulk download files from websites for many web browsers

Instant Data Scraper - Extract data from web pages for Chrome

Context Search - Quickly search highlighted text for Chrome and Firefox

Video DownloadHelper - Download videos from websites for Chrome and Firefox

ESUIT - Facebook content downloader for Chrome

Hive AI Detector - Detect AI-generated media for Chrome

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