FabSwingers.com forum: Content Protection

By (user no longer on site) OP
14 weeks ago

Hi!

I've consistently noticed that some of my photos and videos are being screenshotted or recorded and then reposted on external websites. Has anyone else experienced this?

Are the site owners aware that this is happening? And if so, is anything being done to protect users and their content from this kind of misuse?

Thanks in advance!

By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
14 weeks ago

East Sussex

The following is from FAQs

Why don't you right-click protect our photos to stop others stealing / saving them?

We believe in being straighforward with the members of Fab. Right click protect doesn't work and gives a false sense of security by pretending to "protect" images. Other sites may pretend they've protected your images but actually they're being dishonest by claiming that.

Right click "protect" can be gotten around in under 2 seconds by any of the following methods:

Simplest: Goto File menu, Save As, and save to desktop = The photos will be in a folder on your desktop that your browser has created.

OR... Disable JavaScript by going to Tools menu, choose Internet Options, Click the Security tab, click Custom Level, scroll to the "Scripting" section of the list and click Disable. Right click can now be used to save images.

OR... Press print screen and the image + page will be copied to clipboard where it can be pasted into a graphics program for resize or save.

We give you three privacy options on your photos and we now hide images from anyone who isn't a member of Fab. If you are worried about someone stealing your photos you may want to set them to be viewable only by your friends, or private in which case you can send by private mail.

We also now watermark all photos upon upload.