Comments on: Google Analytics, Disable Right-click in TTG Highslide Gallery

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:46:36 +0000

If you really want to get a bunch of peoples wedding and family pictures go ahead and download my site. You do realize that 99.9% of people have no idea what we are talking about, someone isn’t stupid because they don’t know what javascript is. As I said the right click disabling is not to protect my content.

By: André

André — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:39 +0000

I agree with you. If none of your clients have basic knowledge about web-technology, it might prevent them from saving the pictures.

But if I was your client, I would get the feeling that you think I’m stupid. And just for the fun of prooving you wrong, I might feel challenged to use a web-spider to download your complete site including all of your pictures with just “one click”.

Of course this doesen’t apply to your regular customers, I know.

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:01:32 +0000

No one is saying right clicks should be disabled for entire websites. But if you want to be a client of mine and look at your proofs you just have to put up with it. I doubt anyone has even noticed. If you know how to disable javascript, the right click code isn’t there to stop you. Just discourage easy image saving from client galleries from the majority of users. I like to put up pretty high resolution proofs, so I’d rather clients not save images directly until I provide a CD for them.

By: theturninggate

theturninggate — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:21:29 +0000

I agree with you. I hate disabled mouse-clicks.

By: André

André — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:14:42 +0000

I’m using Mouse-gestures (like many other people) to navigate my way through websites, because it makes navigating much faster. Most Mouse-gestures are activated using the Right-click. If a website disables the Right-click and displays an annoying message everytime I want to draw a mouse gesture, I cannot use them anymore. In my opinion it’s a lack of respect, if the webmaster forces me to disable javascript in order to be able to use his website correctly.

Therefore I usually leave the website immediately if it disables the Right-click.

By: Ryan Smith

Ryan Smith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:56:04 +0000

I just wanted to comment on this because maybe you don’t understand why some of us want this exactly. Any pictures on the internet can be copied by a simple print screen, there is no protection in reality. However most users of my gallery are really not sophisticated, they are not going to know how to disable javascript. I just want a little something in there to make it harder to save an image from their proofs than just a right click. It’s not quite as bad wanting to disable the right click as you make it sound.