Woohoo! Right click protection for Power users!

eoren1

Thanks smugmug!
I was customizing a gallery and noticed the option to turn on right-click protection...and I'm 'just' a Power user!
Greatly appreciate you adding this to non-Pro accounts.
Thanks again,
E

Barb

eoren1 wrote:

Thanks smugmug!
I was customizing a gallery and noticed the option to turn on right-click protection...and I'm 'just' a Power user!
Greatly appreciate you adding this to non-Pro accounts.
Thanks again,
E

Hi

Glad you noticed, and you're welcome

You can always check out new stuff by keeping an eye on our release notes here:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2008/04/25/april-25-2008-better-embeddable-video/

dogwood

And I sure do hate to rain on your parade, but right-click protection really doesn't "protect" anything. You're better off (in my experience anyway) using a watermark. People will still grab your pics-- "protected" or not-- and at least with a watermark you're getting some credit. And done properly, a watermark can take hours and substantial skill to remove. Right-click "protection" takes, oh, less than a second to bypass.

devbobo

dogwood wrote:

And I sure do hate to rain on your parade, but right-click protection really doesn't "protect" anything. You're better off (in my experience anyway) using a watermark. People will still grab your pics-- "protected" or not-- and at least with a watermark you're getting some credit. And done properly, a watermark can take hours and substantial skill to remove. Right-click "protection" takes, oh, less than a second to bypass.

+100000000000000

darryl

dogwood wrote:

And I sure do hate to rain on your parade, but right-click protection really doesn't "protect" anything. You're better off (in my experience anyway) using a watermark. People will still grab your pics-- "protected" or not-- and at least with a watermark you're getting some credit. And done properly, a watermark can take hours and substantial skill to remove. Right-click "protection" takes, oh, less than a second to bypass.

Weyll...

I still think there's some value in right-click protection, since it takes more than a few seconds to bypass in Internet Explorer and for better or worse, IE still holds anywhere from 60-90% browser share, depending on who you ask:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

For all of us geeks using Firefox or other browsers, sure, right-click is no barrier. But to the vast majority of the photo browsing public, I suspect it's enough to stop, or at least curb the casual image-stealer.

devbobo

darryl wrote:

since it takes more than a few seconds to bypass in Internet Explore

umm, you sure about that ?

javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

dogwood

devbobo wrote:

umm, you sure about that ?

javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

Or-- hit the print screen button then ctrl-v in ps. You could also simply shoot a photo of the screen.

Sheaf

dogwood wrote:

And I sure do hate to rain on your parade, but right-click protection really doesn't "protect" anything. You're better off (in my experience anyway) using a watermark. People will still grab your pics-- "protected" or not-- and at least with a watermark you're getting some credit. And done properly, a watermark can take hours and substantial skill to remove. Right-click "protection" takes, oh, less than a second to bypass.

This isn't quite true. While it is indeed quite easy to bypass for some people, I would bet that it foils the majority of internet users. You might be surprised by how few people know what the print screen button does.

dogwood

Sheaf wrote:

You might be surprised by how few people know what the print screen button does.

I respectfully disagree. Show me someone under 30 who doesn't know how to bypass a right-click "protection" feature and you might be able to convince me. But I see it all the time-- my latest portfolio is flash based and I recently sent a link to a 20-year-old model and within two or three minutes she had grabbed one of the images and had it posted on her MM site.

Most of my clients are in their teens or 20's and it's rare I find someone who doesn't know how to grab any image-- no matter the "protection"-- off the web to use on their myspace or MM site.

Andy

dogwood wrote:

-- no matter the "protection"--

full-x watermark, Doggie

Sheaf

dogwood wrote:

I respectfully disagree. Show me someone under 30 who doesn't know how to bypass a right-click "protection" feature and you might be able to convince me. But I see it all the time-- my latest portfolio is flash based and I recently sent a link to a 20-year-old model and within two or three minutes she had grabbed one of the images and had it posted on her MM site.

Most of my clients are in their teens or 20's and it's rare I find someone who doesn't know how to grab any image-- no matter the "protection"-- off the web to use on their myspace or MM site.

Perhaps not specifically your clients, but we hear quite frequently from people who don't know how to do it. Believe it or not, we receive many emails from people complaining that they can't right-click to save a photo on SmugMug and want to know how to get rid around it.

stuartb

In Firefox . . right click on page - 'view page info' - media tab - voila! Images all nicely listed complete with previews and direct urls.
Right click protection is like sticking a dummy security alarm box on your gable. Its not 'protection' in any real sense.

TxTortoise

robot/hack.msg links?
But even with a watermark I'm seeing these,

http://www.ralphmawyerphotography.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nicknameRecentPhotos&Data=RalphMawyer&format=rss200

but I guess the robot is just grabbing the thumbnails, which I don't watermark, right?

dogwood

Sheaf wrote:

Perhaps not specifically your clients, but we hear quite frequently from people who don't know how to do it. Believe it or not, we receive many emails from people complaining that they can't right-click to save a photo on SmugMug and want to know how to get rid around it.

Okay, that makes sense. I've gotten those emails too-- but I swear it's always from clients older than about 30 years old. The younger folks seem to already know all the work arounds.

darryl

stuartb wrote:

In Firefox . . right click on page - 'view page info' - media tab - voila! Images all nicely listed complete with previews and direct urls.
Right click protection is like sticking a dummy security alarm box on your gable. Its not 'protection' in any real sense.

Hey thanks. I'm over 30 and now I know how to steal images! Woot! :-}

(Seriously, after I posted, I spent all of 3 minutes in Firefox trying to figure out how to get the image and FAILed. Of course there's always the brute-force screencap method, but that's such a hack. :-)

--Darryl

JenGrace

Thanks, smugmug, for doing this as well as the custom domain names!

A question on right-click protection. I can't right click even when logged in. Any way for me to bypass it while logged in but still have it turned on?

Andy

JenW wrote:

Thanks, smugmug, for doing this as well as the custom domain names!

A question on right-click protection. I can't right click even when logged in. Any way for me to bypass it while logged in but still have it turned on?

No, I'm sorry about that