How does one disable right clicking or prevent dragging image to desktop on Tumblr?

You can capture right-click actions with javascript, but visitors can disable javascript when viewing your page. You can hide an image behind a transparent image to make it harder to drag an image, but viewing the html source makes that easy to get around.

Ultimately, when a browser visits a website, that webserver is sending a copy of the image back and the user of the browser can get the image.

@phaedryx So… do you happen to know where I can grab that java script or where try the transparent image thing out?

@pleiades just add a watermark to your images, it’s much easier that trying to stop somebody.

If I wanted to get an image:
1. right-click (oh, they’ve disabled it with javascript)
2. drag the image to my desktop (oh, they put a transparent images over it)
3a. cmd+shift+4 (on a mac), select the image and now I have it on my desktop
or
3b. grab it out of my browser cache
or
3c. look at the page html source and look at the image source url
 
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That’s just off of the top of my head.
 
 
What I’m saying is that I don’t think you should spend a lot of effort on something that is easy to work around.

@pleiades You can find the technical answer to your question here, but I must admit that I completely agree with @phaedryx. Disabling right-clicking seems to me a violation of netiquette. Here is one article making the case against it. Plus, your protections won’t carry over to anything that has been reblogged.