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[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Javascript right-click "protection" is about as useless as it gets, TBH. It's not very hard to get around, and those who want to get to the information they need will get it.

To me and you perhaps, But the average man in the street or one with little programming knowledge :erm:

Its the only solution thats viable so far and a site about vacuum cleaners, i'm sure you'll want to catch a glimpse of the newest Dyson model

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

To me and you perhaps, But the average man in the street or one with little programming knowledge :erm:

Its the only solution thats viable so far and a site about vacuum cleaners, i'm sure you'll want to catch a glimpse of the newest Dyson model

Actually, it has nothing to do with programing knowledge. Disabling right click just disables right click. It doesn't have any affect on say, the copy/paste buttons already in their browser window. If they copy content that way, they won't even notice you've added the script. Also, the script is not acknowledged by all browsers.

[Bellardia]

Place an invisible div over the post, this would keep people from selecting the content but still allow them to read it. While they still could view source/highlight it other ways it's a bigger pain in the ass.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by Bellardia

While they still could view source/highlight it other ways it's a bigger pain in the ass.

View > Page [s]Source[/s] Sauce () - in FF

That's wasn't so hard, was it?

[Bellardia]

But how many people want to scan through the source of a page?
By the sounds of the content it could make some people mad, but I doubt they'd go through any extra work just to copy it.

[Dismounted]

If you wanted to copy the content, just highlight and Ctrl+C... Right-click "protection" doesn't stop this.

[Digital Jedi]

Or click your browser's copy/paste buttons, as I mentioned. And in browsers like Opera, the right click script doesn't even work.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

And it would make users like me leave the site without ever looking back. My browser uses Mouse-Gestures to navigate. Use right-click->open in new tab a lot. Disabling right mouse button has nothing to do with copying content (don't need a mouse for that) but all with normal navigation.

PS The only people you might stop are real web-novices, and i think it is unlikely these are the people that would copy&paste things to other sites to start with.

My conclusion: It won't stop anyone from copying, but it will drive away more experienced users from your site.

[punchbowl]

There's a handful of forums dedicated to talking about what's going on with my forum. I take it as a compliment.