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Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
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Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#32Ctrl + Shift + Right click force it to work in almost 99% of the time against right-click blockers in Firefox.
Don't have an exemple of when it would have failed :-)
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#33Is there even proven benefits of blocking right click security wise? I wonder what is the rationale behind these decisions?
A lot of Japanese lyric websites disable right click. My hypothesis is because the Japanese Collection Society have very backward thinking about sharing lyric.
https://www.techdirt.com/2010/03/03/japanese-collection-soci...
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you rather install unknown software that hasn't been reviewed?
I think it was probably moreso the mention of "press" as the reviewers.
What's the alternative? Of course recommendations from friends are the best, but professional software reviews in the news media are 100% more reliable than anonymous crowdsourced App Store reviews, which are easily faked or purchased, and even when they aren't fake, they're often totally ignorant.
I find it very sad that there are fewer software reviews in the news media now than there used to be. This makes it much more difficult for developers to get discovered.
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#35Related: I'd LOVE to know how to force standard ctrl + f behaviour on sites that override it. Same for sites that override ctrl + left click (to open link in new tab - some sites will treat it like you simply clicked the link and open it in the same tab - super annoying).
Many browsers support ctrl + g to open the "find" input.
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#36Is there even proven benefits of blocking right click security wise? I wonder what is the rationale behind these decisions?
In the old days (CompuServ and AOL era of the internet) a lot of sites used it as an easy way of reducing the number of 'right click, save picture' type visitors. It never stopped the determined but reduced it by at least 90%. I have no idea why it is used today though.
I just saw someone request that the creator of a photo sharing site disable right-clicks for the same reason last month on reddit. I think I talked them out of it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/comments/uw9fne/spe...
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#37I always used xdotool to get around "you can't paste here". I may not be able to paste, but you didn't check the attestation signature on my keyboard!!!
Ahh, I knew it was one of the x-tools that did this, but I didn't know the exact one, thanks! Might as well map ctrl+b to `xdotool type (xsel -b)`.
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#38Related: I'd LOVE to know how to force standard ctrl + f behaviour on sites that override it. Same for sites that override ctrl + left click (to open link in new tab - some sites will treat it like you simply clicked the link and open it in the same tab - super annoying).
In Firefox there is a permission for "keyboard shortcuts" or something similar. I've set the default value to disabled.
To do so:
- Open about:config
- Find or create permissions.default.shortcuts
- Set the value to 2 (BLOCKED) or 3 (PROMPT, not sure if that even works)
The changes should take effect immediately. If they don't, try restarting your browser.
You can then go into the page information dialogue (ctrl+I) and turn it back on for individual sites that need shortcuts to work well (like Google docs, maybe Discord).
Note that this might also affect shortcuts that do not conflict with your browser's shortcuts.
Re: Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it was probably moreso the mention of "press" as the reviewers.
What's the alternative? Of course recommendations from friends are the best, but professional software reviews in the news media are 100% more reliable than anonymous crowdsourced App Store reviews, which are easily faked or purchased, and even when they aren't fake, they're often totally ignorant. I find it very sad that there are fewer software reviews in the news media now than there used to be. This makes it much…
Discovery isn't the problem with these tools — it's trust.
I don't trust MacRumors or PC World to vet...anything.
I do sorta trust...I dunno...EFF. Bunnie. yadda yadda.