There's a multitude of ways to workaround this hack. You can easily grab the screen area via the OS if need be. Seems pointless to try to restrict access if it's viewable in a browser.
You can't download this image
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#72Firefox on Android long press save image no other action taken and it shows up in my device photo gallery.
(edit: clarity)
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#73You really can't - the HN hug of death has killed it!
The image was dead in the first place, hence it cannot be downloaded or opened. That’s the joke, i guess.
No, they DoS'd themselves with their "viewable but not save-as-able" technique. Leaving connections open will do that. The image is visible right now but the browser can't save what appears to be an incomplete file.
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#74Yes I could. No issues. Save to photos on iPhone.
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#75On iOS, long press > add to photos
I now have a photo of the Mona Lisa in my camera roll.
I guess this is one of those things that wouldn’t be as edgy with the actual mechanism stated. :)
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#76iPhone > long press > Add to photos What am I missing?
I posted the same snarky comment too. Seems the headline should be “You can’t download this exact image, but you can copy the presentation image via other means.”
More of a play on words for how copy and download often times mean the same thing even though technically they’re different.
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#77If I wanted a non-downloadable image I would make it from 1px wide/tall colored divs.
I thought this is what it was going to be! Another method would be to generate a plane with the same number of vertices as pixels, store the pixel color values as an attribute, and then render the mesh to a canvas.
You can right-click canvas and save it as image.
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#78Rightclick and select "copy image". Why would you want this if you can copy the image anyway?
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#79I just saved the image on full with no green - hah. No problem.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
And even if they figured out some DRM method to prevent screenshotting/screen recording, I can still point my phone camera at my monitor and capture it that way, if I really want to. There is always a way around whatever they try to do. If I can see it, I can make a copy of it.
But because they try the rest of us suffer the consequences of more expensive and slower hardware and all kinds of other problems.
Yes. DRM always hurts the legitimate users more than the "pirates". Same with disabling right click or otherwise trying to prevent downloading images.