I run an educational website and I want that no one can take screenshots or screen recordings of my content like ebooks, notes, videos. Even though this is possible nowadays, why can’t this be done in Wix Studio. I have seen many websites and applications from where we cannot take screenshots or screen recordings.
Which websites have this? Examples?
While a secure flag can be built into mobile applications (which of course can also be bypassed easily), there is NO way to prevent someone from recording content on a ‘website’. Anyone can record their screen, and you can’t have any control over it.
What you can do is try to take preventive measures, like detecting key presses, and blocking the content with an overlay if the system detects that the user is attempting to take a screenshot like Snapchat Web does. However this can easily be bypassed too, if the user is video recording the screen, or is using third party recording tools / software.
Which is why even the biggest OTT platforms and streaming sites like Netflix or YouTube can’t prevent you from recording entire shows or series since they have no control over the user’s actions. However sharing / distributing any such recorded content without authorisation is called piracy and is deemed illegal.
So the reason for giving you these examples is that Wix is a ‘website’ builder, and websites run in browsers, and not on the device itself, like an app. So it has only so much control as offered by the browser and is limited to specific actions.
Since you said have an educational website, I’d like to point out that I’m pretty sure you can copy paste stuff from other websites such as Byjus or Khan Academy or other similar alternatives. What they can do is not allow you to ‘download’ a 100 page ebook, but a user who has limited access to content can still take screenshots of all 100 pages individually.
You can restrict content downloads in Wix too, by embedding them inside third party or custom coded viewers where users can only view, not download. But to conclude, no matter how hard you try, anyone who has access to your data online can save it in various means or forms, thanks to the technology of today.