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I just tried it on Imgur and was able to right click -> "Save video as". But yeah, I have seen a lot of more scummy sites do what you described.

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I have seen a few overlay empty divs over an image/video. Very frustrating behavior.

That's hardly new, though. Flickr has been doing that for ages.

I've kind of expected that you have to open the DOM inspector to find image links these days. Not sure what they think they're protecting, but the protection doesn't work.

(Reminds me of sites that disable pasting in passwords from your password manager, so you have to have xdotool type them for you. Again, not sure what they think they're saving me from. And I'm not sure why browsers have APIs that allow this sort of thing.)

The protection is not against people like you. It's for the average joe.

Knowing how to use the dev tools makes you like a 1% in the world. And blocking out 99% with a simple div or something is a pretty good ROI

Such simple protection works even for developers if they use smartphone because navigating DevTools on smartphone is complex task.

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