Right Click Protection and Image Security
We get this question at our help desk all the time: “HELP!!!! I thought I was protected, but so-and-so was able to get a copy of my photo from SmugMug! What Happened?????”
Right click protection is a mild deterrent, and it’s one part of your overall image security on SmugMug. It should not be the only security that you use. It can be foiled by modern browsers and can be turned off by disabling javascript. Another thing to be aware of, is that when you are sending an image over the web to a browser, that image is in the viewer’s computer, in the browser’s temporary internet files. Savvy folks can find this. Also, SmugMug’s right click protection won’t carry through to images displayed in forums, emails or other websites, or to the thumbnails of your images on SmugMug.
What can you do? Use all the image protection available. Right click protect, add a watermark, and block the largest display copies. And add disabling of external links (they won’t be able to link to their myspace).
As always, holler to our Support Heroes if you have any questions at all.
