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  • damsel
    Blueparker
    • Oct 2011
    • 58

    #31
    Just found this post extrenmely helpful - thank you

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    • KayJay
      Senior Blueparker
      • Nov 2009
      • 1222

      #32
      Have you also checked Google Images, we find a lot of our product images end up on there if you search for the product name and it's easy as pie to then have your image 'stolen' Very annoying as they don't even need to go to your website to get them.

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      • Neil
        Senior Blueparker
        • Nov 2008
        • 2330

        #33
        I posted a poll about this just after 8 this morning - but the forum froze and it didn't post up - will do again later.
        Regards

        Neil.

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        • Dave
          Senior Blueparker
          • Dec 2007
          • 3981

          #34
          Rich knows I would like to be able to exclude images from google images. Spoke to him a couple of weeks ago so hopefully he will consider it for inclusion sometime soon.
          Regards,

          Dave

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          • KayJay
            Senior Blueparker
            • Nov 2009
            • 1222

            #35
            Originally posted by Dave
            Rich knows I would like to be able to exclude images from google images. Spoke to him a couple of weeks ago so hopefully he will consider it for inclusion sometime soon.
            Can you do that? I didn't realise, I thought it was just something that was part of Google search that we had to live with.

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            • little-linguist
              Senior Blueparker
              • Sep 2007
              • 804

              #36
              Ooh - I didn't know that there was any option to be excluded from Google Images. Sounds interesting!

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              • Dave
                Senior Blueparker
                • Dec 2007
                • 3981

                #37
                Originally posted by little-linguist
                Ooh - I didn't know that there was any option to be excluded from Google Images. Sounds interesting!
                Originally posted by KayJay
                Can you do that? I didn't realise, I thought it was just something that was part of Google search that we had to live with.
                Yes it just needs a couple of lines adding to the robots.txt file. Not everyone would want to do this so Rich would need to include it as an option.
                Regards,

                Dave

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                • Red Devil
                  Senior Blueparker
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 2569

                  #38
                  Originally posted by Dave
                  Yes it just needs a couple of lines adding to the robots.txt file. Not everyone would want to do this so Rich would need to include it as an option.
                  You can also put commands into your htaccess file to prevnt "hot linking" of images - again Richard would be able to help.
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                  • lewey
                    Senior Blueparker
                    • Sep 2007
                    • 114

                    #39
                    Just to second that it would need to be optional. Whilst we have some of our own images of products where we're only a retailer and find it as frustrating as the next person when our work is 'taken', in other cases we are the distributor or more of the products and so are broadly happy for images to be used where it can create greater awareness. And we do have situations where a friendly review has been done that mentions us but the other website / blog has made use of copying an image from our site (in which case we have no objection).

                    If you have images or product shots that you really don't want competitors using for free, get creative in how to make it as hard for them as possible. Not only in terms of watermarking, but the images you actually take. eg where suitable put a sticker with your name or logo on it onto the product, then your photo includes reference to you, or position a name tag in front of the product when taking the photo, or for lifestyle type shots have your name / logo sitting in the background.
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                    • mikeyred
                      Senior Blueparker
                      • Aug 2008
                      • 256

                      #40
                      not sure if anyone wants to go this far but the following script disables right click and stops you left clicking & dragging over text and copying it, we know plagiarising is rife and to a degree a way of life on the internet and there are always ways round it to be fair but it acts as a deterrent to most people. Tim done the tweaks on the basic script to ramp it up so to speak, he is a developer at our company ICUK

                      I have used it on my site (www.green-bear.co.uk) for the past couple of years and works okay for me. Just drop this in the header as per the other scripts and hopefully it will work on your site okay.

                      Hope its of benefit to someone.

                      <//--- Green Bear_disable_image_text.txt --Tim/Mike-- 2008-11-14 23:18:29.000000000 +0000
                      +++ js.txt 2008-11-14 23:54:22.000000000 +0000
                      @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@//>
                      <SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
                      <!--
                      var message="Copyright ©2012 Green Bear UK Ltd. All Rights Reserved.";
                      function clickIE() {if (document.all) {alert(message);return false;}}
                      function clickNS(e) {
                      if (e.target.type == "text") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "submit") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "checkbox") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "radio") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "textarea") { return true; }
                      if(document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!doc ument.all)){
                      if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {alert(message);return false;}}}
                      if (document.layers)
                      {document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document. onmousedown=clickNS;}
                      else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontext menu=clickIE;}
                      document.oncontextmenu=new Function("return false")

                      function noclic(clic) {
                      var msg="Copyright ©2012 Green Bear UK Ltd. All Rights Reserved.";
                      if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && clic.which==3) {
                      alert(msg);
                      return false;}
                      else
                      if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' && event.button==2) {
                      alert(msg);
                      return false;
                      }
                      return true;
                      }
                      if (document.layers) {
                      document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
                      }
                      document.onmousedown = noclic;
                      // -->
                      </SCRIPT>

                      <script>
                      function disableselect(e){
                      if (e.target.type == "text") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "submit") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "checkbox") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "radio") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "password") { return true; }
                      if (e.target.type == "textarea") { return true; }

                      return false;
                      }

                      function reEnable(){
                      return true
                      }

                      //if IE4+
                      document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")

                      //if NS6
                      if (window.sidebar){
                      document.onmousedown=disableselect
                      document.onclick=reEnable
                      }
                      </script>

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                      • Work-wearUK
                        Senior Blueparker
                        • Apr 2012
                        • 146

                        #41
                        Mike , thanks for this, i have the "select text " bit working but can still right click on images?
                        Thanks

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                        • mikeyred
                          Senior Blueparker
                          • Aug 2008
                          • 256

                          #42
                          ummm! strange, as you can see from mine, the right is disabled and I copied the script directly from the control panel. I have just checked in IE & Firefox and the same problem - can you PM me the exact copy of your header so I can see if there is any conflict in yours as mine is okay - typical, nothing is straightforward eh!!

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                          • mikeyred
                            Senior Blueparker
                            • Aug 2008
                            • 256

                            #43
                            looking at your source code you appear not to have the full script in and its not top & tailed as <script>

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                            • cupcakewrappers
                              Blueparker
                              • Apr 2011
                              • 38

                              #44
                              I'm about to upload all of my products to google product feed which I noticed has a policy of absolutely no watermarks on product images. I'm going to have to remove all of the watermarks from images that I painstakingly watermarked.....grrrrr!

                              In my experience I would not recommend Magento and in my opinion Bluepark is a much better platform with amazing support, but I did notice this nifty feature that Magento uses, automatically overlaying a watermark http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowl...age-watermarks

                              If this meant that images could still be uploaded to google product feed without the watermark that would be a great feature for Bluepark. Of course, otherwise it would be a useless feature!!

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                              • Deefer
                                Senior Blueparker
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 2096

                                #45
                                Does look good

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