How can I prevent people from right clicking and saving/copying my images on my website?

I'm uploading images that I dont want people ripping from my webpage, or inspect element.

is there anyway I can potentially hide the right click or get rid of both the right click and encrypt the link from the inspect element.

i'm using the mark novo template.

Use this guide.

Disabling right-clicks reduces the usability of your website. It can make users very frustrated and leave the site. If you disable it, users cannot right click to:

• Open a link in a new tab
• Lookup a word
• Translate a word/phrase
• Read aloud a section of text

And bear in mind that it does nothing to prevent copying of images. It will still be possible for anyone to download images or text from the website. 
For more information, see Preventing visitors from downloading your images and audio. This Squarespace guide covers several other approaches you can take to protect your images and discourage unlawful copying.

Site URL: https://www.angelamaritz.com/

Hi, I am an artist (I paint) and would prefer that people cant right click and save/copy images on my website. Is this possible? I understand they can still take a screenshot.

Thanks 

Here are some good resources, but it will only prevent saving by right-clicking, there are many other ways to download image that are online. The best thing you can do is scale down your images and decrease the quality (to just within acceptable levels for web) and add copyright info to the metadata. It's a tricky problem for artists and creators online, sadly without a great solution. Good luck!

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206542457-Preventing-visitors-from-downloading-your-images-videos-and-audio

Great guide @tuanphan. Just making sure the right hand click disable script code still lets Google index the websites?

Thanks 🙂

On 11/15/2022 at 4:31 PM, catalienne said:

Great guide @tuanphan. Just making sure the right hand click disable script code still lets Google index the websites?

Thanks 🙂

I'm not sure, but quite a few people use that code and haven't seen anyone mention indexing, you're the first to mention it.

On 11/15/2022 at 9:31 AM, catalienne said:

Just making sure the right hand click disable script code still lets Google index the websites?

It will not affect indexing of the website but, as I explained above, it will reduce the usability of your website and potentially frustrate genuine visitors.

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.

I use the following code, inserted under Setting->Advanced->Code Injection in the Header section to prevent users of my SS 7.0 website from downloading my images and right-clicking to save:

<HTML>
 <HEAD></HEAD>
 <BODY on contextmenu="return false;" onselectstart="return false;" ondragstart="return false;">
 </BODY>
</HTML>

<script>
document.oncontextmenu = function(e){
   var target = (typeof e !="undefined")? e.target: event.srcElement
   if (target.tagName == "IMG" || (target.tagName == 'A' && target.firstChild.tagName == 'IMG'))
       return false
}
</script>

This code works as intended; however, I have found that it also screws up the editor, e.g., I cannot mouse drag over text to highlight while editing, nor copy/paste, nor see my cursor occasionally. If I delete that code, editing returns to normal, and reinsertion causes those problems to reappear. My work around at the moment is to do exactly that: delete, edit, reinsert the code. Yes, it's kludgy, but that's the best I have.

I'd like to add code that checks to see if I am logged in (as the website owner). If true,  the script would be disabled permitting me to edit without problems. If false, ie., any other users views my pages, their ability to use context menus and right-click saves would be disabled. The key is how to add code to ID the owner as the one making the edits and then stop the code from functioning while the owner is editing.

I have no experience with coding, and picked up the aforementioned code from a user on this forum. So, if anyone has any suggestions on how to modify this code so I can retain the functionality (prevent download, right-click and swipe to desktop saving), but at the same time permit my editing, please post a reply.

Thank you in advance for your help,

Bob

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Still hoping for some help.

Hello, I've still not worked out how to prevent right-click downloads. Wix, Pixpa, and Format make this so easy. For other reasons I prefer Squarespace, but for this reason, I cannot commit to Squarespace. Underwhelmed by Squarespace's lack of interest in this matter, and I wish those who managed to solve this problem after checking on this forum would share their knowledge with the forum...  😞 

2 hours ago, SW1 said:

Hello, I've still not worked out how to prevent right-click downloads. Wix, Pixpa, and Format make this so easy. For other reasons I prefer Squarespace, but for this reason, I cannot commit to Squarespace. Underwhelmed by Squarespace's lack of interest in this matter, and I wish those who managed to solve this problem after checking on this forum would share their knowledge with the forum...  😞 

Have you tried the solution from tuanphan's post: this guide.

Make sure that you are clear about the notice from paul:

Another frustrated freelance photographer stunned by Squarespace's bull-headed POV on this.

Someone else said it and it's true: You still lock your doors even though houses get broken into.

Why Squarespace seems hellbent on making it as easy as possible for thieves when they market themselves to creators is mind boggling.

And while my site is small and Squarespace won't notice, I am no resigned to the fact that Squarespace does NOT have creators best interests at heart and I will need to rebuild my site with a competitor that gets it. It's just unfathomable that they're so dense to what a fundamental issue this is to its users. Moronic. Truly stupid.  They simply do not care.

Good luck to anyone who continues to use Squarespace. Whatever you create, Squarespace is at the ready to stand guard and make sure that door stays wide open. So dumb.

Peace.