# insecure web designers and no right-click
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 28, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833 "2005-05-28T00:00:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/1 "2005-05-28T00:00:55Z")
Grr.
Look. I’m not trying to steal your content. I don’t even need to right click to do that. I can cut, paste, and view source without it; your precious images are in my browser cache, or I can screenshot them. What I can’t do, when you lock out the right click or give me some stupid copyright message when I hit the mouse button, is access my helpful and friendly context-sensitive menus, or control where that link on you page opens.
Luckily the back button still works.
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### Author:  [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/2 "2005-05-28T00:16:29Z")
A-fucking-men!
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/3 "2005-05-28T00:44:41Z")
A-fucking-men[sup]2[/sup]
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/4 "2005-05-28T02:49:33Z")
Oh god, I hate “no right click”. It’s pretty much obsolete, anyways-I can STILL access right click with Netscape-I just have to then get out of the annoying “No Stealing!” pop up afterwards. And with the image toolbar, I can save pictures (I don’t steal these pictures-sometimes I just save pictures I like just to look at, that’s it).
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/5 "2005-05-28T03:08:58Z")
> [@aktep](#):
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> Luckily the back button still works.
Unless they block that, too.
I really hate that.
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/6 "2005-05-28T03:17:33Z")
It’s just javascript. Easily taken care of.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/7 "2005-05-28T03:20:34Z")
> [@Reeder](#):
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> It’s just javascript. Easily taken care of.
I can use the back button drop down box, too, but that doesn’t make it suck any less.
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### Author:  [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/8 "2005-05-28T03:29:25Z")
> [@Reeder](#):
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> It’s just javascript. Easily taken care of.
Sure. Go through the process to disbale JS, then open a new page, and go through the process of re-enabling JS to allow me to see the page properly.
Real easy.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/9 "2005-05-28T03:47:41Z")
I like to copy one of their pictures and email it to them.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/10 "2005-05-28T04:18:17Z")
Yes, some websites are downright annoying.
How about websites that say: “to view this site, you must have Real Player 7.0, Flash Media 8.0, WinAmp 9.0, QuickTime 10.0, monitor settings must be 1280 by 960 pixels …”
OR how about those websites (especially those newspaper sites) where you have to register to read anything?
Well, I just went to Google and their index page states that they are “Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages”. So, if a website wants to be some “fancy-schmantsy, no right click, must register” pain in the ass, I guess I’ll just have to go to one of the other 8 _billion_ web pages to find what I want.
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/11 "2005-05-28T04:56:37Z")
Plus, I’ve got news for the guys who lock their pages like this: It’s just freaking Javascript. You didn’t discover a cure for cancer, or write an operating system. It’s script code, and on sites that do this, probably not much of it. And in any event, there are already freely available javascript snippets all over the web that do what you’re doing, and probably better.
Any Javascript that I write, people are free to download and use as they see fit. As if the value in my web site is determined by the freaking Javascript behind it. It’s the content, stupid. And anyway, it’s not going to kill you to give a little back to the community. I’m not an open-source evangelist or anything, but jeez, if you’re going to zealously guard your script in fear that it might make someone’s life a little easier, you need to stop clutching the mouse so tightly.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/12 "2005-05-28T06:48:56Z")
> [@aktep](#):
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> Sure. Go through the process to disbale JS, then open a new page, and go through the process of re-enabling JS to allow me to see the page properly.
> Real easy.
The new version of Netscape has a nice addition…a drop-down menu for each tab, making (among other things) changing Javascript options for individual pages a two-click process.
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### Author:  [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/13 "2005-05-28T08:30:06Z")
Firefox has an “enable right-click” extension. If you right-click one of these pages, you still get the little, “This site disables right-clicking” type notification, and then the context menu comes up anyway. Whee!
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/14 "2005-05-28T12:45:16Z")
> [@aktep](#):
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> Grr.
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> Look. I’m not trying to steal your content. I don’t even need to right click to do that. I can cut, paste, and view source without it; your precious images are in my browser cache, or I can screenshot them. What I can’t do, when you lock out the right click or give me some stupid copyright message when I hit the mouse button, is access my helpful and friendly context-sensitive menus, or control where that link on you page opens.
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> Luckily the back button still works.
I agree! It is one of my big pet peeves. I usually figure that the web site was done by an amature when I see it. I also refuse to do business with people who do it.
On IE you can open the link in a new window by holding down the shift key and clicking. I’ve switched to Firefox which allows you to open in a new tab by using the middle mouse button to click.
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### Author:  [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/15 "2005-05-28T14:50:00Z")
Only slightly related, but still annoying, was what happened to me the other day. I was browsing sites off of Google when I got to one that had the error message “STOP STEALING MP3s! You’ve been logged and banned for 2 hours!” Then I was, quite surprisingly, banned from that site for two hours.
And no, I had no idea they had MP3s or whatever the hell else. Way to be over sensitive morons.
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/16 "2005-05-28T15:28:39Z")
[miniT is a Firefox extension that solves this problem and others.](http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=161) It allows you to enable/disable Javascript, images, plugins, metaredirects, subframes, and auth on a tab-by-tab basis from a convenient context menu, scroll tabs using your mouse’s wheel, drag-and-drop tabs, and open a new tab with a double-click.
[Other tab-related Firefox extensions.](http://mozilla.dorando.at/readme.html)
[Rebuilding TBE’s featureset with other plugins](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47192), for all of us whose hearts were stolen and then broken by the beautiful, flawed TabBrowser Extensions extension.
My point is that it’s a crappy thing done by insecure morons, but Firefox gives you ways around it and then some.
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### Author:  [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/17 "2005-05-28T18:41:55Z")
I especially like it when they put smart as messages up when you right click. “All images on this page are copyright protected”
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### Author:  [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/18 "2005-05-28T21:34:13Z")
That annoys the hell out of me too, but here’s an easy and quick way to bypass it that works with most browsers/scripts: Right click and hold down the right mouse button. When the annoying Javascript window pops up, click the “OK” button by pressing the space bar. Release the right mouse button, and voila! Context menu!
But apart from maybe stealing images from people out of spite, I agree with those who say that doing something as annoying as that is a good way to ensure that I’ll never go back to that website again.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/19 "2005-05-28T23:12:45Z")
For those folks who don’t like Firefox, there’s a handy little free app called [Proxomitron](http://www.proxomitron.info/) which allows you to solve the problem of the script kiddies trying to disable the right click on their webpage. It also lets you kill the annoying midi music they’ve embedded in their page, the various flashing ads on the page, pop ups, and just tons of other stuff. Plus, it works with every browser except AOHell’s.
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### Author:  [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insecure-web-designers-and-no-right-click/305833/20 "2005-05-28T23:35:13Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> [Rebuilding TBE’s featureset with other plugins](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=47192), for all of us whose hearts were stolen and then broken by the beautiful, flawed TabBrowser Extensions extension.
Wow, what am I missing? I’m still using TBE (and have for some time). What’s wrong with it?
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