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Why are they disabling right click? I mean, captcha is there to stop bots. Bots have no 'right click'.

My guess is that the programmer didnt really know the reason for using a captcha. He has seen captcha's in other places (and how irritating they are) and has tried to copy them.

Or am I missing a certain point?

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I was about to complain that Chrome wasn't popping up the context menu on right-click.

So the .js file is disabling right click? How exactly do I look at the source without it? Hmm.

Aha: "Wrench icon" -> Tools -> View Source

Or Ctrl+U :)

Or wget (url)

Or curl (url)

Or telnet to port 80

Are we really going to list every possible method?

Well no, the point is that there are many, it's trivial to get the source of a web page. "Disabling" the context menu on a web page is nothing more than a giant billboard shouting to the world that you are childish, ignorant, and unsophisticated.

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