Protecting Images from being downloaded on websites

There’s no 100% secure answer to protecting images. There is always going to be a way around it for extremely advanced users, but this might represent a very low percentage of the population.

The most common image download prevention method is to add a bit of code to the website that prevents right clicking. For example, the link provided here is a webpage where someone wrote a script that gives a custom message when a user tries to right click on the page. You can try it out on the page. These kinds of codes can be bypassed by disabling Javascripts on the page, or by using Firefox.

A more secure way is to use Flash. More advanced users can still get to the image by combing through the HTML of the webpage, but for the average person this prevents downloads.

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