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When I right-click an image on the feed and open in new tab, it can be downloaded.

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Tested this a few weeks apart, and it still sadly works. Is there a way to avoid this please? This opens Primfeed up to heavy copyright infringement and more food for the AI beast. Would it be a bug or a feature request?

Posted by Mo Elara ·
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  • Luke Rowley changed status to Closed
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    May 6

  • primerib1 Resident

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    Sep 14, 2024

    AI beasts will simply render the page and grab the image directly. As long as an image gets transferred to client-side, there is no way to prevent someone from grabbing the image. After all, a browser needs to get the image data to show it on the page.

    • Mo Elara

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      Sep 17, 2024

      primerib1 Resident, thanks, in the meantime I fixed my naive view.

  • Luke Rowley changed status to Open
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    Aug 27, 2024

    • Mo Elara

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      Aug 29, 2024

      Luke Rowley, what does "open" mean please? I have brought up this issue before and it was gone from the list, like this one. Is there a possible solution on the horizon? :-)

    • Mo Elara

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      Sep 9, 2024

      As replied on your post: Long story short after my research tonight: Luke, you were very right and I was very wrong. My apologies, you already do what is possible on a social media platform, meaning that images get downsized to mini size on right click or direct download.

      Other options are: Block right click website-wide, which is probably doing more harm to usability than good against theft. There are options to protect images from being distributed/reused, which look like these below on download, as thumbnails. Of course, everyone can use watermarks and signatures, but layers to protect - from what I read - can only be used on ones own/personal/corporate website, not on social media because of tons of different upload sources.

      Example photos with layers on download to inhibit usage:

      external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A…

      external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A…

      Code possibilities to block right clicking to open new tab:

      oscarmini.com/3-methods-to-d…

      Or this:

      gyazo.com/bd6c3f2fdf6768…

      Sorry again, Luke, please feel free to close/delete my bug report, I do not have the option anymore, perhaps because you and somebody else reacted to it. Thank you!