[ryandrake]

This is great, but... As the meme goes, "why do we even have that lever" to disable a mouse click? More evidence that browsers are out of control, and have given over way too much agency to web developers. If a user doesn't want to right click on a page, they can just... not right click. Why does the developer even have a say?

[duskwuff]

> As the meme goes, "why do we even have that lever" to disable a mouse click?

So that web pages can implement their own behaviors for right-click, e.g. web applications which have their own contextual menus, games which use right click as an input, remote desktops which pass right click to the remote host, etc.

[mhaberl]

This.

We actually need the override right-click functionality in some cases. Most of the abused functionality had some normal use case at some point. It's a shame that bad actors make everyone's life harder.

[simonbw]

It's about allowing a custom right click action more than just disabling it. There are plenty of use cases for making a custom action happen on right click. Google Docs adds a custom menu on right click. Games often have a use case for right clicking.

[hawski]

Usually it is done for one of three main reasons:

- to make it hard for the user to copy/save stuff

- to offer context menu in a web app

- in a web app game for whatever

The first reason is clearly hostile to the user. The rest is arguably reasonable.

[occamrazor]

Hijacking the right click is useful for web apps like word processors, text editors, spreadsheets, image editors.