Here’s how a Flickr protected large image page might look like before:įlickr protected image before disable style Safari Developer Menu with Disable Styles option Safari Advanced Options Enable Developer MenuĪnd here’s what the Develop menu offers: an option to Disable Styles. Here’s where to enable “Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar”: In Safari, if you enable the “Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar” option in advanced settings you will get a nice new menu. In this case, “Disable Javascript” won’t get you access to the image. Basically Flickr is putting the image behind an empty div so you can’t get at it with your mouse to save it. The Flickr trick is CSS based and consists of a div which carries the style classes “facade-of-protection” and a div called “spaceball”.

If you don’t want people to be able to copy your content, don’t put it on the internet, people.įlickr, given that they have some good coders working for them, came up with an anti-download hack a little bit better than the standard no save on right click which is easily defeated by just pressing the spacebar or disabling javascript. We get this kind of silly request from clients all the time: “I want a website where no one can copy any of my content ever.” Photographers probably requested the feature so much that Flickr went against their better judgement and coded this hack. For some reason Flickr – they should know better as good coders – have decided to be cute and try to prevent downloading of some images.

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