Redirect image links automatically?

  • LB

    (@sean-fitzgerald)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I am new to Tumblr and love this plugin. One thing I am trying to tweak.

    On my wordpress blog, I am uploading large images (2048x) for retina displays. I have right click disabled on WordPress.

    Using Crosspostr, my WordPress posts are reposted to Tumblr. I have also added some code (I found) to my theme that disables right click for images. But when you just click on an image in that post, it directs you to the full size media file hosted on WordPress, and you can download the full size image directly.

    I figured out that I can manually go into the Tumblr post and change the link for that photo, but since I Tumblrized that archives, I have a couple of hundred posts I’d have to fix.

    So ideally, I’d like to turn that off for all posts, or just have it redirect them back to the original WordPress post.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/tumblr-crosspostr/

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  • Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    What you are trying to do (prevent people from saving images their browser has already downloaded and displayed) is both unethical and thankfully futile, and I will not help you do it.

    Thread Starter LB

    (@sean-fitzgerald)

    I can understand your position. I have read a little of your blog and I can respect your passion for an open internet.

    My goal is not to put a complete lock on those images. I don’t mind if someone downloads the image at the Tumblr-post size for their personal use, but the larger size (2048 pixel) image that these feeds are pulling from is my issue.

    I just want to prevent the full resolution image that is being cached on WordPress from being downloaded. I have literally had dozens of my images downloaded in the past and then published without my permission in calendars sold out of China. That is not exactly ethical, either, and I have a hard time seeing how it is unreasonable of me to seek to prevent enabling that here. That is all I want to prevent. There is a big difference between someone downloading an image at 640 pixels the image is displayed at vs. 2048 pixels I never intended to display the image at.

    It is the whole issue of retina-sized images that I am struggling with.

    Anyway,

    I am sure that still offends your sense of ethics- I can respect that and judging from the tone of your prior response, I don’t exactly expect any help. I just thought I’d explain. Thanks for your time.

    Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    I have literally had dozens of my images downloaded in the past and then published without my permission in calendars sold out of China. That is not exactly ethical, either, and I have a hard time seeing how it is unreasonable of me to seek to prevent enabling that here.

    Even if I agreed that publishing something without permission is unethical (and I don’t), and even if I shared the purportedly reasonable ethic you espouse, an unethical response to an unethical act is not a reasonable solution. Obviously.

    There is a big difference between someone downloading an image at 640 pixels the image is displayed at vs. 2048 pixels I never intended to display the image at.

    If you never intended to display the higher resolution image, do not upload the higher resolution image to a publicly accessible website, like your blog. Obviously.

    The argument I am making is not just an ethical one, it is also a technological one. You are functionally trying to accomplish security through obscurity. That will fail. It is a fundamentally flawed approach.

    Rethink your workflow.

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