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I remember back in the the late 90s when my dad asked me for a javascript solution to prevent people from right clicking on his photos (that he wanted to sell p
by skrowl 6y ago
I remember back in the the late 90s when my dad asked me for a javascript solution to prevent people from right clicking on his photos (that he wanted to sell prints of) on his website and clicking save image.
He was horrified to learn what the Print Screen button on his keyboard did.
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoHaha, indeed. Blocking right click is so silly. It doesn’t really prevent a sufficiently motivated user, it’s just annoying. Although if you’re talking about printing photos, you would need a very high resolution monitor to capture a decent quality photo using the print screen function. Doesn’t seem viable to use print screen in order to save a photo you intend to print, especially in the 90s when screens were rarely better than 1024x768. Obviously there are better ways to save the high-quality original images, but I’m not sure I would really worry about print screen.
- 20after4 6y agoYou'd be surprised how little people care about low resolution photos. Most people would rather print a crappy screen capture of an image than pay for a high quality print.
- Shared404 6y agoI would say it's actively harmful. If I accidentally notice that it's happening, I'm going to start actively downloading things indiscriminately. Or maybe I'm just annoying.