Title: watermark? Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # watermark? * [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/) * What plugin gives watermark in images only when someone tries to copy them from the screen or download without permission, not when the images are displayed in the screen? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416980) * There is none because that concept of the Internet is wrong. * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416982) * well, I read that image protection on the internet is “myth”. * But there are many plugin that claim protection. Some tech savvy probably can copy images anyway, but most people are novice, and won’t be able to go over the plugin protection, I assume. So, can you recommend any plugin anyway? * I have wp image protection, but if I am not mistaken, it seems that the watermark even when displaying them in the screen, not when copying or downloading without permission. * Thanks! * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416984) * You know all browsers provide you with an option to “save” the page, right? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416985) * Technically to view the image on a page the image has to already be on the person’s device – to view it means it has already been downloaded. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416986) * [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M6RsIk-NV7Y/UY6gjGv3myI/AAAAAAAAAhs/fb4HwBvZD4w/s1600/how-the-web-works.jpg](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M6RsIk-NV7Y/UY6gjGv3myI/AAAAAAAAAhs/fb4HwBvZD4w/s1600/how-the-web-works.jpg) * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416989) * oh well, sticking with boring text then? 🙂 * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416990) * on the second thought, encryption won’t do any good? there are plugin that does encrypt, no? no recommendation at all? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416991) * I would say watermark your images, but don’t do something where you wait until someone does something like right clicking before adding watermark. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5416992) * What do you mean by encryption? * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5417001) * according to the path in the diagram you gave me, it seems there might be a way to scramble the code so that even if it shows up in the screen on the end user side, they cannot print it, or save it and reproduce it again. IT is not that advanced? 🙂 * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5417004) * I don’t think you would be able to preview the image if it was corrupted; I don’t think there’d be an image on the webpage. It would be corrupt. * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5417007) * ok, so, IT is not that advanced. 🙂 Thanks. Will stick with text for now, then. Deleting all the images, now. Pity! 🙁 * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5417009) * Just one more. Can’t they corrupt the image only if someone tries to reproduce, or print, not view in the screen? It seems feasible for the modern day IT, no? 🙁 * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5417012) * Once it’s on their computer you have no control over it, and that diagram shows all you need to do is visit the URL for those images to be on your computer. Can I ask, if you visit a photographer’s website and they disable right click stating for you to respect copyright, and then you check your temporary Internet files and it shows you have downloaded and _stolen_ their images, what would you do? * Thread Starter [wpaskuser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpaskuser/) * (@wpaskuser) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/#post-5417016) * so, that “useless” image protection plugin provokes moral responsibility and stops you from doing anything further? In that sense, that “useless” image protection plugin is doing its job? At least, you know you are doing something which is not allowed. And many people do not even know anything about “temporary internet files”, nor where to find them in their computer, no? When they see right click disabled, most of them just give up, no? So, in that sense, using image protection is worthwhile? 🙂 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘watermark?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [watermark](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/watermark/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 19 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/watermark-15/page/2/#post-5417071) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics