# Prevent downloading of posted images

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-downloading-of-posted-images/99689>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-downloading-of-posted-images/99689 "2018-10-16T22:50:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-downloading-of-posted-images/99689/4 "2018-10-16T23:14:16Z")

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What’s to stop anyone from pressing the screenshot button on their device to copy the photos?

That said, although it is a bit of protection theater more than real protection, I am not opposed to a theme component here which disables the right click action on images cc @Johani

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