Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it

  • [PSA] Firefox has this built in already: Hold Shift while right-clicking. Been a while since I tested on a fresh profile, but I don’t believe this requires any preference tweaking or about:config stuff.

  • Similar extension with 500,000+ users: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enable-right-click-...

  • I assume there's something similar for Safari on Mac, but I don't know.

    When I run into a site that doesn't want to let me select/copy text, I screen shot the page -- in Photos on iOS, and in Preview on MacOS, selecting text out of an image generally works great. Just tap and hold a moment on iOS, or hover a moment on MacOS, and then drag/click-drag to select.

  • There are also blogs that don't allow zooming. Technical blogs with visualisations are almost not readable on mobile

  • I remember disabling right click on a geocities site I built for my friends to show off their hand-drawn comics. Another guy in our 4th grade class was rehosting our comics on his geocities so I disabled right click.

  • Wonder if this works on copy/download protected Google Docs. They had some pretty interesting protections, but could still be circumvented by looking at page source.

  • IF this can change the settings for tap/right click -> save video files, people may actually use better file formats than gifs one day.

  • The vast majority of websites that disable it, they're actually doing it to provide additional functionality which would be lost otherwise. Seems like using a sledgehammer to snap a button.

  • Web pages are intended to be editable. I wish popular browsers had an easy user-facing way to invoke

        document.designMode = 'on'

  • does anyone know of a solution for websites that hijack your ctrl-LMB (which is supposed to open the link you just clicked in a new tab)?

  • Some sites block the search option on the rt-clk menu when a word or phrase is selected.

  • How about we just stop allowing this and call it what it is - disabling functionality of my system without my explicit permission - and start charging these site operators with CFAA violations.

  • How is this different than other extensions that enable right clicking? There are certainly a few for Firefox (I use "Allow Right-Click").

  • yea i knew this and i think we can also do the same thing in MAC os .