Hello, I’m undecided about Squarespace over one issue: The lack of a function to disable right-click downloading of photos. Apparently, this is so much more straightforward with Wix. But for many other reasons, I prefer Squarespace.
Squarespace tells me that if people want to steal images, they’ll do it anyway, e.g., screenshots, so there’s no reason to disable right-click downloads. I have three responses to this:
(1) Do you lock your door when you go out? Because I found (from experience) that locking the door doesn’t deter a determined burglar. But locked doors do deter opportunists.
(2) Copyright notifications when trying to right-click on images on other platforms are a good reminder that, while you can go ahead and make a screenshot, this image doesn’t belong to you. Maybe I’m an optimist, but I think that good ethical practices in photography should be promoted in any way possible, rather than just assuming that there’s no point (and making it easy to download anything and everything).
(3) Screenshots are usually lower resolution. So, you might think you’re stealing an iPhone 10 but you’re actually getting the iPhone 5.
I’ve seen a few discussions on this forum about disabling right-click downloads, but it seems complicated, because I know nothing about code, and because people have found that disabling right-click downloads on a desktop does not necessarily disable it on a mobile phone. Also, things change, and many of the discussions on this forum are many months old now.
Please would anyone be willing to talk me through the process, with the current version of Squarespace (7.1, I believe?).
Thanks in advance.
