Can websites see if you saved a picture from their site?

[Revel]

If you right click and hit save, can they see that you did that? Is it like an actual download from the server?

[yNeolh]

When you enter in a website your webbrowser download that image, then when you right-click and save image (Default option of the browser) it just copy from your pc so. Unless it has special Javascript, no, the owner can't know it.

 

Have a good day

[REX.exe]

Only if they are set up to do so. But, if you actually hit a download button to download a wallpaper or something then it is definite.

 

But the real question here is....Why do you need to know this? Are you saving illegal images or something?

[TheKDub]

Yes they can, but they have to be set up in a certain way for it to work.

[mantylt]

No. Browser already downloaded that image while loading website. That was recorded in server. Your manual "Save image as...." is not.

[Revel]

Are you saving illegal images or something?

 

Possible, I could have done that without knowing the "facts" so to say.

 

 

No. Browser already downloaded that image while loading website. That was recorded in server. Your manual "Save image as...." is not.

 

Alright, I hope so atleast lol.

[IdortMasterRace]

Only if they are set up to do so. But, if you actually hit a download button to download a wallpaper or something then it is definite.

 

But the real question here is....Why do you need to know this? Are you saving illegal images or something?

 

The fuck, why would someone havbe to be doing something illegal to want to know this?

[colonel_mortis]

It is possible for them to find out, but doing so would be fairly complicated, and it would be much easier for them to just prevent you from downloading the image in the first place if they were so bothered about it.

 

Every time you load a website, your browser requests the images that are on that site. If you try to download the image, the browser sends an identical request to load the image again (though often it's cached, in which case the specifics depend on how the site has been implemented). In theory, the site could do some analysis of the HTTP requests to discover that you hadn't loaded the page recently, but the evidence that you downloaded the image is pretty weak, and nobody would go to all that effort to identify the IP addresses of people who download images from their site.

The website can make it so that when you right click, the image url changes to a trackable url, but that still doesn't prove anything, and that requires the image to be downloaded again, so most sites (with the notable exception of Google images) are unlikely to do this.

 

If you're worried that your download violated copyright, don't be. As far as I know, most countries' laws allow you to download images for personal use anyway, and certainly nobody* would take any action against you for downloading one.

 

* nobody except that one person that you're probably going to find to prove this statement wrong