Stopping users saving images from your website to their computer?
If so, the answer is no. The web doesn't work like that. Your users have already saved the images in their browser cache just by visiting your website.
You could put all sorts of user hostile javascript on your pages to stop people right clicking on your images etc, but the kind of people that know how to manually save images from websites will know half a dozen ways around that. You will only annoy legitimate users trying to do legitimate things with their right click context menu.
You could embed your images in Flash objects or Java applets, but that will only annoy most other people and still doesn't stop someone taking screen captures etc.
Unless of course you meant something else altogether...
I know there are people that know how to manually save images and I know I cant do anything against it. But I want at least restrict downloading pictures by users that dont know how to manually save images.
> But I want at least restrict downloading pictures by users that dont
> know how to manually save images.
I think 99.99% of internet users now know that if they are prevented from a right-click download, they just need to open their browser cache to get the image. Even if you could prevent the browser from somehow downloading an image, with one button they can just screenshot it to clipboard. Nothing you can do will make it so inconvenient that people still can't get any image saved on their desktop within seconds, whilst you inadvertently inconvenience your other users.
First I back up what is said beforehand but...
If you need a module try: Copy Prevention
As stated on module description
".. But if you want you can try to protect your content/images and prevent/disable at least the most simple ways to copy it."
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how are images getting saved ? are you using a module ?
please explain a little more.
Do you mean
Stopping users saving images from your website to their computer?
If so, the answer is no. The web doesn't work like that. Your users have already saved the images in their browser cache just by visiting your website.
You could put all sorts of user hostile javascript on your pages to stop people right clicking on your images etc, but the kind of people that know how to manually save images from websites will know half a dozen ways around that. You will only annoy legitimate users trying to do legitimate things with their right click context menu.
You could embed your images in Flash objects or Java applets, but that will only annoy most other people and still doesn't stop someone taking screen captures etc.
Unless of course you meant something else altogether...
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I know there are people that
I know there are people that know how to manually save images and I know I cant do anything against it. But I want at least restrict downloading pictures by users that dont know how to manually save images.
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If they don't know how to download the images aren't they already restricted ?
> But I want at least
> But I want at least restrict downloading pictures by users that dont
> know how to manually save images.
I think 99.99% of internet users now know that if they are prevented from a right-click download, they just need to open their browser cache to get the image. Even if you could prevent the browser from somehow downloading an image, with one button they can just screenshot it to clipboard. Nothing you can do will make it so inconvenient that people still can't get any image saved on their desktop within seconds, whilst you inadvertently inconvenience your other users.
Here's a good article though:
http://www.naturefocused.com/articles/image-protection.html
If you need module solution
First I back up what is said beforehand but...
If you need a module try: Copy Prevention
As stated on module description
".. But if you want you can try to protect your content/images and prevent/disable at least the most simple ways to copy it."
Entering The Dip and trying to win over it.