Some websites disable right-click to prevent people from stealing their images. The problem is that this does NOT slow down people from stealing their images. People that steal images have SOOO many different ways about getting their images. Disabling right-click is the least effective way to prevent image stealing.

Hurting the little guy

We, the little guys, are the only ones hurt from disabling right-click. There are so many valid uses for the right-click. Some of the reasons I like to use right-click are for page navigation and viewing page source. There are shortcut keys that help so it doesn’t bother me too much and I don’t think there are many sites that still do disable right-click.

How to re-enable

Type, or copy/paste, the following into your web browser when viewing the page that has disabled right-click:

javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

This runs javascript to re-enable the right click.

Bookmark It!

It’s hard to remember all of that code when you stumble across a page that disables right-click. The best thing to do is to add a bookmark with that javascript as the url. Whenever you are on a page that has disabled right-click, all you have to do is click on the bookmark you have saved and it will re-enable it for you.

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

I know it’s corny but I want you to use this script responsibly. It’s not legal to steal other peoples’ images. So don’t do it!

Script Not Working?

Have you found a page that this script doesn’t work on? Post a comment with a link and we’ll see if we can find a way.