IMAGE PROTECTION USED TO EXTEND TO BLOG... but not anymore!

tmcnewyork

All images linked to my blog prior to 2010 couldn't be right-clicked or dragged. They would be rendered as blank files, but since January, the protection does not extend to images linked to my blog. What happened? Image protection is still turned on just like before and even on the help page it says that linked images aren't protected. So why did they used to be? Also, if I right-click or drag an image on my blog prior to 2010, it continues to be protected. Only images inserted since the new year are affected.

Is anyone else having this problem?:scratch

denisegoldberg

My images as shown in my blog have never been image protected.

Right click protections has always been only for images displayed within smugmug, and even then you shouldn't consider it to be protection.

http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2008/07/04/right-click-protection-and-image-security/

--- Denise

jfriend

Show me a link to a page with an older image in your blog that is right-click protected, please.

It takes active code in the host page to implement right-click so it cannot be done by Smugmug, it would have to be done either because of the particular code you put in your blog or done by the blog itself.

tmcnewyork

Link to blog with image protection
http://ThereseBeth.blogspot.com

Go to any image prior to 2010 and try right-clicking or dragging it. It comes up as a blank file! (Don't be fooled by the Christmas pics... they were put on in January.)

RogersDA

tmcnewyork wrote:

http://ThereseBeth.blogspot.com

Go to any image prior to 2010 and try right-clicking or dragging it. It comes up as a blank file! (Don't be fooled by the Christmas pics... they were put on in January.)

All of that spacer.gif stuff is implemented by Blogspot, not by SmugMug. Besides that, all your images on that blog are "covered" by the spacer.gif image.

Not that this does much - screen captures will get the same thing as dragging....

Edit: Since the page source can be obtained by anyone - the blog image links back to your site are available. I can get any of the large images irrespective of the existence of the spacer.gif file. Heck - you enabled X3 sizes for some of your galleries so I can get those, too.

tmcnewyork

RogersDA wrote:

All of that spacer.gif stuff is implemented by Blogspot, not by SmugMug. Besides that, all your images on that blog are "covered" by the spacer.gif image.

Not that this does much - screen captures will get the same thing as dragging....

Edit: Since the page source can be obtained by anyone - the blog image links back to your site are available. I can get any of the large images irrespective of the existence of the spacer.gif file. Heck - you enabled X3 sizes for some of your galleries so I can get those, too.

Well then, thank goodness I'm not trying to protect state secrets!

On the other hand, I don't know how to do any of that and my guess is that most people looking at my blog don't either. I just want to be able to post pictures without clients being able to drag their pictures off to their desktops. I realized that what I started doing differently in 2010 was to use the image insertion gadget on blogger instead of dragging the image from SmugMug onto my blog. Somehow in doing this, I get the Spacer.gif which, if this is as good as it gets, I'm perfectly happy with.