Some images at Flickr are weakly protected with an image overlay called spaceball.gif. Whenever you right-click the image to save it you do save spaceball.gif instead which is a 1×1 pixel image showing nothing at all. The same happens if you try to drag the image to your desktop or hard drive.
However, if a photo is show it can be saved. The easiest way to achieve this is by blocking spaceball.gif from being loaded when visiting Flickr. You can do this in Firefox if you have the Adblock extension installed. When you are viewing an image at Flickr that you can’t save because of the spaceball.gif overlay you do the following to block the overlay.
Hit CTRL + SHIFT + B to open the list of blockable items. Navigate to the entry with spaceball.gif at the end and choose to block this item by right-clicking it. This prevents that spaceball.gif is loaded so that you can save any items at Flickr by right-clicking it.
Opera has a similar function. Just go to Tools > Advanced > Blocked Content and click Add in the menu. Paste the url *flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif into the new entry and close the menu.
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doesn’t quite work
it does work, please explain what you did and what is happening
Is there no other way of doing this? I mean without using Adblock?
i got it banned, but it still loads.
It would probably be a good idea to empty your browser cache before or after applying this hack.
It really works.
Thanks,Martin!
WOW! It truly works. I didn’t realize that it could be this simple.
opera also works!!!
i cant make it work
are you trying to steal pictures from there ???
because this is not funny at all !!!
spaceball is to protect our own pictures !!!
shame !!!
Works perfectly! Thanks….Regarding the previous comment which says “are you trying to steal pictures from there ???
because this is not funny at all !!!
spaceball is to protect our own pictures !!!
shame !!!”….Well…why does Flickr claim that “Share your photos…watch the world”. It’s supposed to be a “free site” to share photos.So where does the question of “stealing” comes?
Agreeing with the fella above: if you’re so into your photos not being downloaded by anyone, DON’T PUT THEM ONLINE. Simple. So get off the sanctimonious trip, and close your photo albums to the world.
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it worked perfectly. i’m going on a spree.
thanks, really usefull.
is there any way i can do this with internet explorer? im using windows vista. if anyone can help, please e-mail me with the instructions at westbank_souljah@yahoo.com
Now the shortcut for opening blockable items list for firefox 3
is ctrl+shift+V.
However, if a photo is show it can be saved. The easiest way to achieve this is by look “ABOVE” the image have a link; in this case is Pink water buffalo picture:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26ni%3D20%26va%3Dwater%2Bbuffalo%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501-s%26xargs%3D0%26pstart%3D1%26b%3D261&w=500&h=375&imgurl=static.flickr.com%2F46%2F136472882_550cc7da46.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fbonnechance%2F136472882%2F&size=157.6kB&name=Pink+water+buffalo&p=water+buffalo&type=JPG&oid=46ff3496358a45e0&fusr=bonnechance&tit=Pink+water+buffalo&hurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fbonnechance%2F&no=277&tt=82,938&sigr=11j155qp5&sigi=11d594om7&sigb=13pjtgoq7&sigh=119ti0evl
Above the Pink water buffalo picture is showing this line:
“Below is the host webpage http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonnechance/136472882/ with the image in its original context”.
Click the link; you will get the web page of Pink water buffalo stand alone by itself. Now you go to the menu on the top, click (View—>Source), you will get Microsoft Notepad contained the Source Codes of Pink water buffalo web page.
Next, go to the top menu of Microsoft Notepad, click (Edit—–> Find) and type into the box: JPG, then click “Find Next” (some time you have to click the button Up or Down).
Finally, the “Link” contain of the Pink water buffalo image JPG will be found:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/136472882_550cc7da46_s.jpg
Open a “New” Microsoft Internet window Explorer, copy the link above to the Address and Go. You have a Pink water buffalo image with out the spaceball.gif overlay, now you can Right Click or save the whole Pink water buffalo web page to your computer.
It’s that easy!
Liemtran308 (Tám Lúa)
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It dose work! Thank you!!
THANK YOUUUUUUU.
:)
It may be easier and faster to add a rule like “http:/*/spaceball.gif”.
The only downside is if you ever look for GIFs from the movie “Spaceballs”, which isn’t real likely.
Or, just use Firebug.
Thanks man! :)
View source is probably the easiest way to get around the spaceball.
If you have a program that numbers the lines when you view the page source(Something like notepad++), the real address of the picture you want is on line 539.