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#25 2013-11-19 15:34:04

etc
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Re: copyprotection of images

Guys, I recognize my idea was wrong, and have no doubt you can catch my kitty. :) Still, source encoding is a bit more resistant to page save.

Gocom wrote:

You are better off just using that above base64 encoded image in the document. Saves you HTTP requests too.

For large images page loading could then take too much time?

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#26 2013-11-19 22:59:04

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Re: copyprotection of images

etc wrote:

For large images page loading could then take too much time?

You’re just delaying the load of (large) images; on complex pages the user may end up with ‘holes‘ in the page – or equally annoying for the user, a layout reflow after page load. As I noted earlier in this thread, current UA’s do lots of work to attempt to fetch images faster (prefetching) and your technique actually defeats that completely.


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#27 2013-11-20 12:50:29

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Re: copyprotection of images

phiw13 wrote:

You’re just delaying the load of (large) images; on complex pages the user may end up with ‘holes‘ in the page – or equally annoying for the user, a layout reflow after page load.

Thank you for the comment, but it’s debatable whether waiting few seconds in front of the white screen is a better experience. You can set image height and width initially, to avoid reflows, and you can instruct browsers to prefetch their encoded sources as well. And who cares about these cat thieves? :)

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#28 2013-11-21 08:06:15

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Re: copyprotection of images

Kitty is getting harder to catch (pretending you are an average surfer).

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#29 2013-11-21 08:12:38

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Re: copyprotection of images

etc wrote:

Kitty is getting harder to catch (pretending you are an average surfer).

Hi Oleg ;)

That’s fun but we can get the image (finding its URL).
The only one solution is to use watermarks.


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#30 2013-11-21 08:25:15

etc
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Re: copyprotection of images

Hi Patrick,

you cheat, Average Joe doesn’t look at the page source. :) OK, reload the page and try to get the image URL.

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#31 2013-11-21 09:48:19

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Re: copyprotection of images

:)

Thanks lot Oleg. Now I have a nice kitten (png format) on my desktop. Everyone love kittens.

But you’re right: only 5% (maybe) look at the page source. Only 1% (maybe) use a website sniffer.


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#32 2013-11-21 13:47:45

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Re: copyprotection of images

Windows users all have Print Screen. Mac and Linux users probably know about screen capture. Ah, the joy of sharing and giving and taking and learning!

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#33 2013-11-21 20:17:55

etc
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Re: copyprotection of images

I absolutely don’t care about image protection, that’s only an exercise. And there still is a perfectly noob way to copy the page with image source, you are just lazy. :)

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