Right Click Protection revisited

Ann McRae · October 1, 2005

So did you know that if you click 'okay' on the right click protection message and then right click again, you override the protection?!

Just had a helpful fellow do this to my image entered at the cslr challenge, helping me resize for the challenge, but he got my large file.

ann

jfriend · October 1, 2005

Did they get the real file?

Ann McRae wrote:

So did you know that if you click 'okay' on the right click protection message and then right click again, you override the protection?!

Just had a helpful fellow do this to my image entered at the cslr challenge, helping me resize for the challenge, but he got my large file.

ann

Usually, people think they got around it, but instead end up with a dummy file instead and don't end up getting the real image. Nobody claims this is foolproof, just a slight deterrent.. After all, if the browser can display it, then that means the computer can download it. If the computer can download it, a human can get it.

--John

DodgeV83 · October 1, 2005

Right clicking will never give you the file ever. Its not totally impossible, only impossible by right clicking

jfriend wrote:

Usually, people think they got around it, but instead end up with a dummy file instead and don't end up getting the real image. Nobody claims this is foolproof, just a slight deterrent.. After all, if the browser can display it, then that means the computer can download it. If the computer can download it, a human can get it.

--John

David_S85 · October 1, 2005

Ann, not as much a problem as you may think it is.

I tried it, and like before, all I got was a 1 x 1 pixel clear GIF image. These are layed over the real image so what they heist is not your photo. Of course, there are ways around this

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Andy · October 1, 2005

ann, everyone is right here...
you get a file called "spacer.gif"

try it and see.

Andy · October 1, 2005

David_S85 wrote:

Ann, not as much a problem as you may think it is.

I tried it, and like before, all I got was a 1 x 1 pixel clear GIF image. These are layed over the real image so what they heist is not your photo. Of course, there are ways around this .

ps: hey david, i really like what you've done with the pqow!!!!!!!!!

Ann McRae · October 2, 2005

Okay, well, I refer you to this photo:

http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/49903666

and this thread from dpreview:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=15258245

The photo, as I submitted it, was 800 pixels on the long side with a white border, but over the 150 kb rule. I was going to pull it because I couldn't resize it to my liking without a bunch of artifacts. So, this fellow got it from my smugmug gallery - I didn't send it to him.

If all he got was a dummy, how does it look so good and real??????

ann

Barb · October 2, 2005

Ann McRae wrote:

Okay, well, I refer you to this photo:

http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/49903666

and this thread from dpreview:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=15258245

The photo, as I submitted it, was 800 pixels on the long side with a white border, but over the 150 kb rule. I was going to pull it because I couldn't resize it to my liking without a bunch of artifacts. So, this fellow got it from my smugmug gallery - I didn't send it to him.

If all he got was a dummy, how does it look so good and real??????

ann

This is just a guess, but it may be because you are allowing the "share photos" link. I can click on the "share photos" link and get at least the large image. Right clicking directly on the photo in your gallery leads to the right-click protect.

Andy · October 2, 2005

Ann McRae wrote:

Okay, well, I refer you to this photo:

http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/49903666

and this thread from dpreview:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=15258245

The photo, as I submitted it, was 800 pixels on the long side with a white border, but over the 150 kb rule. I was going to pull it because I couldn't resize it to my liking without a bunch of artifacts. So, this fellow got it from my smugmug gallery - I didn't send it to him.

If all he got was a dummy, how does it look so good and real??????

ann

ann- right click disable, works as advertised. but please know that no matter what, if the image is displyed on someone's computer, that the file exists in their computer, on their hard drive. it's in a windows temp folder somewhere, and it's not very hard to find.

cheers

Right Click Protection revisited

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