Stop Right Click Downloads

[JohnCourt]

Hey folks, is there anyway to prevent the "right click on an image" to "save as" in our communities. In other words, can I prevent the downloading of images posted in our forums. And if I can, what are the consequences of doing that?

Thanks

John

[Square Wheels]

You can make it more difficult, but there are ways to beat almost anything you put in place.

[AndyF]

As above really, you could probably add a bit of js to prevent 'right click' but this will only hinder nothing more as there's little to either stop them viewing the entire page source or elements of via the browser menu itself and getting the details that way.

If you did manage to stop it via a dynamic image or suchlike then there's still the simple option of taking a screenshot of the entire window and saving that...

 

[JohnCourt]

Thanks guys, appreciate the feedback. So there is nothing in IP Core for me to flip a switch to prevent the practice?

On a side note, it does not bother me one bit, I am an open source type of person, but our members were asking about it. Thanks!

[AndyF]

If you Google search for 'prevent right click' there are quite a few small bits of code to do this if its required.

However the problem is even if you somehow prevent a direct image path (storing it above the webroot for instance) if it can be seen on the screen there is nothing (on a PC at least, I suspect a Mac has similar) from someone simply pressing CTRL+PRTSCRN to 'copy' the entire screen to the clipboard and from there they can just open it in any paint editing package they choose.

 

[Square Wheels]

Or I can use a camera and take an actual pic.  It can't be prevented.

[AndyF]

6 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

Or I can use a camera and take an actual pic.  It can't be prevented.

That's what I call thinking outside of the box.

I guess ultimately the thing is 'if you can see it, you can copy it' by one means or another.

[Pross22]

Watermarking your images is a lot better than the 1990's copy pasta javascript you find on the internet, and from a support point of view there is nothing more irritating than going to a client site to debug some issue and right click is disabled forcing you to use keybord shortcuts to open the dev console

[CP_User]

As above, one could simply view page info on firefox, and under media I can save the images from there. Simply add watermarks to any image, don't make them to small or people will crop them out too...

[JohnCourt]

Guys thanks a ton for all the great input!