[stevin6]

Originally Posted by schlubby

I'm not sure if there's some other big secret that Stevin's talking about, but it's almost never too difficult to pull down JPGs that are shown in "protected" albums. With either Firefox or Chrome, you can just go into the Developer Tools (hit F12, usually) and select the Network tab before you start clicking on the fullsize images. Then find the images in the long list of files that have been loaded in your browser, right-click, and choose "Save Image". If you've already clicked before you open the Network tab, you may have to reload the whole page to get the large images to load up again. Sometimes the image files have readable names in this table, and sometimes they don't. For the KeiXth MorXris album, the filenames aren't very useful: "fit=2040x2040", etc. It can be hard to figure out which image file to download, since there's usually a thumbnail that's been loaded separately, and sometimes (like this album) when you click on one image, 3-5 image files get downloaded to the browser to be cached. But, if the files in the gallery are JPGs at all, and they usually are, they will almost always be downloaded to the browser in a way that lets you save them from the Network tab. I've only seen 1 or 2 exceptions, ever.

Even if we use almost always (several) X's in names, thread names and picture names it'could be always possible that someone related to the specific website or calendar will read this thread and comments here about the used technique. As a potential result they could strengthen their website/security so that it would be much more difficult or impossible to grab those pics.
Thats why i didn't get into the matter, and also important i think we should try to keep this thread clean from discussions about technique, after all this is a picture thread in the photos section. We have an other section for discussions about technique!!!
May be i'm a bit too cautious, but i like to be on the safe side.