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Configure Content protection

Overview


Content protection stops visitors from copying your store's text and images, saving your pages, taking them with keyboard shortcuts, or opening the browser's developer tools (a hidden panel that shows and copies a page's code). It lives in Settings > Content protection, where you choose who it applies to and turn on only the protections you need.


What you'll learn



Requirement


The Blockify app embed must be turned on in your theme, otherwise the protections do not work on your store. See Activate Blockify and the app embed.


How to enable Content protection?


Step 1: Choose who the protection applies to


Go to Settings > Content protection. At the top, Apply content protection to decides which visitors the protections below cover. Blockify saves your choice as soon as you pick it, and it covers all four protections together.


Option

Who is protected

All visitors

Everyone who views your store, including visitors allowed by a whitelist rule. Default for new stores.

Only visitors that are not whitelisted

Visitors let in by a whitelist rule with Whitelist if these accesses use VPN ticked can still copy your content.



Note: This choice never changes who can enter your store; it only decides whether a whitelisted visitor can copy your content. If your store already let whitelisted visitors copy content, Blockify set it to Only visitors that are not whitelisted for you and shows a banner with Switch to all visitors. Nothing changes until you switch.


Step 2: Turn on the protections you need


Each card has its own switch, and Blockify saves it as soon as you flip it.


Option

What it does

Protect content

Visitors cannot select (highlight) text or drag images on your store.

Deactivate right click

The right-click menu does not open, so "Copy", "Save image as…" and "Inspect" are not available.

Deactivate shortcut

Turns off keyboard shortcuts for copying, saving, inspecting or screenshotting the page, group by group (Step 3).

Deactivate inspect

Visitors cannot open the browser's developer tools, not even from the browser menu.





Step 3: Choose the shortcut groups


When Deactivate shortcut is on, its card lists four shortcut groups, each with a checkbox and the keys it covers. Hover the info icon next to a group name to see what it stops. Tick the groups you want Blockify to deactivate and untick the ones that get in shoppers' way; Blockify saves each tick as soon as you click it.


Group

Shortcuts deactivated

Copy and select content

Ctrl/Cmd + C, Ctrl/Cmd + X, Ctrl/Cmd + A

Save page

Ctrl/Cmd + S

Developer tools and view source

F12, Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + I / J / C, Cmd + Option + I / J / C, Ctrl + U, Cmd + Option + U

Screenshot capture

PrintScreen, Win + Shift + S, Win + G, Win + Alt + PrintScreen, Cmd + Shift + 3 / 4 / 5, Ctrl + Shift + S (Firefox)



Tip: Screenshot keys belong to the computer itself (Windows or macOS), not to your store page, so Screenshot capture cannot stop every screenshot: Blockify hides the page while the key is pressed, but the screenshot may not come out blank. Unticking the group always works and lets shoppers screenshot a product to send to your support team.



How it works?


  • Deactivate shortcut is the main switch: when it is off, no group works; when it is on, only the groups you ticked work. If Deactivate shortcut was already on in your store before the groups were added, all four groups stay ticked.
  • With the Developer tools and view source group unticked but Deactivate inspect on, the developer tools are still blocked when opened from the browser menu. Turn Deactivate inspect off too if you want them to open.
  • Changes work from the next visit; a page that is already open works the old way until the visitor reloads it.
  • Content protection does not run in the Shopify theme editor or on a theme preview link.
  • Deactivate inspect never applies to Googlebot, Bingbot and Lighthouse (Google's page speed check), so your Google ranking and speed reports are not affected.


Tip: If a visitor opens the developer tools before the page has finished loading, they see the blocking page as soon as Blockify starts working on the page.



Who can use this feature?


  • Protect content — available on the Premium plan and above.
  • Deactivate right click, Deactivate shortcut (with its groups) and Deactivate inspect — available on the Enterprise and Shopify Plus plans.


Apply content protection to is visible on all plans. If you move to a lower plan, the protections switch off, but Blockify keeps your Apply content protection to and group choices.


FAQs


  1. I turned on Protect content but a visitor can still copy my text.


Check that the app embed is turned on in your theme, the Protect content switch is on, and Apply content protection to is All visitors if that visitor matches a whitelist rule.


  1. I unticked a shortcut group but shoppers say the shortcut is still blocked.


Your theme may still use an older version of the Blockify app embed. Update it in the theme editor and ask the shopper to reload the page.


  1. Can I let my own staff copy content?


Whitelist their IP address with Whitelist if these accesses use VPN ticked and set Apply content protection to to Only visitors that are not whitelisted. There is no separate staff exception.

Updated on: 16/10/2026

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