Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
You can’t prevent your images from being downloaded.
Computers automatically download images from websites and store them in temporary files. Your best bet would be to watermark images.
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n2h2o
(@n2h2o)
just read the other post.
Thanks for the news./.. bad news 🙁
too bad there is not a way to prevent it.
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n2h2o
(@n2h2o)
i have a friend who has a blogger blog and you cannot click on any of her photos or copy anything on the page. she gave me bit of code she used can I use that code on wordpress?
if you right click on anything a message pops up and tells you this site is copyrighted and stealing is not nice…. or something to that effect.
The message might discourage a few people…but that also tends to annoy visitors. If you’re still so inclined, this would likely be the easiest way to do it:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/no-right-click-images-plugin/
Do know that in Firefox, for example, if you look at Tools –> Page Info, then under the media tab – there is a list of all media on the page — and then there is a button to “Save As” – and bingo – image saved by user.
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n2h2o
(@n2h2o)
I did not know that. Thank you for sharing it.
That is kind of scary knowing that it is that easy to copy an image.
Thanks for the reply
Yep, basically anything you put on the web can be stolen or copied and nothing is ever entirely private or safe :/.
On top of that, any file that’s downloaded to your PC to display on the sites page is stored in the browsers cache at least for a little while. It’s extremly easy to go to that folder on you rhard drive and just copy the file from there. There’s nothing that you can do to stop people doing that.
