Comments on: Disabling Right-Click?

By: Earvin

Earvin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:16:18 +0000

Thank you! This actually convinced me not to search for the right-click disabling code anymore. I think I’ll watermark my images from now on! Wehehehehehehehhe> >;-)

By: The J Spot

The J Spot — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:38:36 +0000

Monday Blues…

I’m taking a short break from blogging momentarily (and yes, I’ll be offline). A blogger can have writer’s (or blogger’s?) block, too, you know. And I need to catch up on my ZZZs. You may be wondering about the title, as this p…

By: eric

eric — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:45:51 +0000

pangit nga pag walang right click.. what i do now is add watermarks to all my images.. pangit sya pero ok na rin.. lahit papano..
and all the images in my gallery are protected against hotlinking..

By: ajay

ajay — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:18:19 +0000

hmm, the watermark doesn’t look good to me. & besides, ‘twould appear too hardsell;)

By: alfie

alfie — Wed, 17 May 2006 09:20:18 +0000

I agree with abe’s recommendation, putting a water mark on the photos will also help you to popularize your website.

By: jepaperts

jepaperts — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:56:59 +0000

disabling right click won’t help. the best way to protect content and images… never publish it on the web.

By: ade

ade — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:07:51 +0000

i used to do that on my old site, but it only slowed my site down.

By: alfie

alfie — Tue, 16 May 2006 07:39:56 +0000

Just go to File->Save Page As…-> then save. Then, all of the content of your web page has copied, including text, jc files and pictures. No right click involved.

By: ba

ba — Tue, 16 May 2006 02:38:48 +0000

Well, there’s control+left click for opening links in new tabs in Firefox.

But still, anti-right click sites are annoying.

By: noemi

noemi — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:58:30 +0000

Like Dave, I often use right click to open a new window tab. And I get disappointed if a site disables it. But it’s also my experience that newbies often hotlink images and one of the first things they learn is right click “copy image location”.

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Tue, 16 May 2006 00:33:18 +0000

Good advice. For those who think that disabling right click protects anything, they really need to learn more about what the web is all about.

I too frequently use right click to open in a new tab. When I find this feature disabled I almost always leave and don’t come back.

There’s another totally legitimate use of right clicking to look at the source code. When I see a particularly well designed site, or a feature I haven’t seen before, I often peek to see how it was done, if the blog template is custom to the site or a pubically available one, etc. Prevent me from doing this and I won’t be much of a satisfied user, anxious to see more of what’s offered.

By: kutitots

kutitots — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:53:59 +0000

well, if you can disable right-click, why not disable highlighting the entire page all-together? there’s nothing to CTRL+C on.

But then, there’s always SAVE PAGE AS…

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Mon, 15 May 2006 21:53:19 +0000

yeah, disabling the right click won’t stop people from ripping stuff from your site. it might lessen but not completely protect your content. view source is one way of bypassing the disabled right click. and if you are a Firefox user, disabling the right click is like cutting of one hand. hehe

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 15 May 2006 20:30:52 +0000

They’res only one fool-proof way to protect your content: don’t publish it on the web

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Mon, 15 May 2006 18:51:27 +0000

Disabling right clicking is one of the most annoying things. Not that it works in FireFox anyway.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:45:53 +0000

It’s a usability issue, too.

As for firefox–I love middle-click!

By: batjay

batjay — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:30:28 +0000

i agree. you can disable the rick click button but ultimately it can’t protect your content that much as the old CNTRL-C click we’ve inherited from the MS DOS days still works in windows.