Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Websites that disable right-click
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Right-clicking links and opening them in new tabs is blockedUnreviewed
20132026- Sites block right-clicking on links, so the user cannot open or copy them normally2025-08-18
- Disabled right click stops opening products in new tabs, so shoppers give up2025-06-08
- Sites block right-clicking links and opening them in new tabs2022-06-05
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Sites block right-clicking on links, so the user cannot open or copy them normally2025-08-18
- Disabled right click stops opening products in new tabs, so shoppers give up2025-06-08
- Sites block selecting and copying text, so users must work around it with screenshots2024-09-28
- Sites block right-clicking links and opening them in new tabs2022-06-05
- Sites hijack Ctrl+F and Ctrl+K and block the right-click menu, so normal browser functions stop working2022-05-05
- Right-click is blocked and shows an alert instead of the normal context menu2021-10-09
- Right-click disabled on sites and apps, and hard to do on mobile2021-07-13
- Right-click disabled or blocked by transparent overlays, so the back navigation can't be used2016-10-07
- Right-click is disabled, so the person cannot use the context menu they expect2016-05-22
- Websites break right click, scroll wheel or back button behaviour2015-05-31
- Custom context menus remove the browser's built-in options, so users lose expected commands2013-02-01
- Sites replace the browser context menu, removing the standard copy and paste options2013-02-01