An interesting workaround for Android 12 users: go to the app switcher and there will be a badge over the image which you can click to get "copy", "share" and "save" buttons. Save it from that panel and it works just fine.
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You can't download this image
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Re: You can't download this image
#172In Chrome, you can just do as the author says, right click and "Save Image As". Then just go to the folder where it is being downloaded, and copy/paste the file "lisa.jpeg.crdownload" to "lisa.jpeg.crdownload copy". Rename to "lisa.jpeg" and cancel the download. You now have the image. What's interesting is that you ARE actually downloading this image. It's just that they don't terminate the connection.
I just dragged and dropped it to my desktop. This was on macOS, dunno if Windows would allow that.
Re: You can't download this image
#173There's another way to achieve this in a more malicious way. Granted I haven't tried it in years, but it was possible back in 2017 when I tested it. The idea is to fake the image that's being displayed in the IMG element by forcing it to show a `background-image` using `height: 0;` and `padding-top`. In theory, you could make an IMG element show a photo of puppies and if the person chose to Right-click > Save Image A…
Yes, this still works just fine! https://gist.github.com/jffry/8906d4fec025c564c7b396324bedaa...
Re: You can't download this image
#174The image saves immediately on an iPhone
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cunningham's Law [1]: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer". [1]: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Though note that Cunningham disavows the law attributed to him: > Cunningham himself denies ownership of the law, calling it a "misquote that disproves itself by propagating through the internet." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham
That does sound like the right answer, posted in response to the wrong answer.
Re: You can't download this image
#176In Chromium based browsers the quickest method I've found is "right click -> Inspect" the image then click the sources tab in the dev tools window. From here you can drag or save the image shown without issue. My guess as to why this works is the sources view seems to pull from the loaded content of the page rather than fetch the content based on the lack of packets trying this with a packet capture running.
Re: You can't download this image
#177In Chromium based browsers the quickest method I've found is "right click -> Inspect" the image then click the sources tab in the dev tools window. From here you can drag or save the image shown without issue. My guess as to why this works is the sources view seems to pull from the loaded content of the page rather than fetch the content based on the lack of packets trying this with a packet capture running.
Right click copy is faster.
Re: You can't download this image
#178In Chrome, you can just do as the author says, right click and "Save Image As". Then just go to the folder where it is being downloaded, and copy/paste the file "lisa.jpeg.crdownload" to "lisa.jpeg.crdownload copy". Rename to "lisa.jpeg" and cancel the download. You now have the image. What's interesting is that you ARE actually downloading this image. It's just that they don't terminate the connection.
Whatever your browser shows, is shown from cache. So the picture should be in your cache, too.
Re: You can't download this image
#179In Chromium based browsers the quickest method I've found is "right click -> Inspect" the image then click the sources tab in the dev tools window. From here you can drag or save the image shown without issue. My guess as to why this works is the sources view seems to pull from the loaded content of the page rather than fetch the content based on the lack of packets trying this with a packet capture running.
Right click copy is faster.
It copies bits shown on the screen, so it loses e.g. EXIF data, if any, the original color space, etc.
Re: You can't download this image
#180In Chromium based browsers the quickest method I've found is "right click -> Inspect" the image then click the sources tab in the dev tools window. From here you can drag or save the image shown without issue. My guess as to why this works is the sources view seems to pull from the loaded content of the page rather than fetch the content based on the lack of packets trying this with a packet capture running.
In Firefox, beside that, you can press Ctrl + I, open the "Media" tab, and pick any of the graphics that were already downloaded to display the page. Then you can save the picture(s) you're interested in. I suppose the source of it is the local cache.
Does not work in this particular case, of course, because the whole image is not yet in the cache.