Can I prevent websites from disabling the context menu in Safari on macOS?

Question

More and more websites seem to disable the context menu in web browsers.

Can I prevent websites from disabling the context menu in Safari on macOS?

Answer 1

I finally found a tool that brings back the context menu for Safari on all those websites that disable it. It’s aptly called StopTheMadness ($8.99).

It also offers solutions for other browsers like Firefox, but I haven’t tested those.

Many web sites disable user interface features in your browser that you normally expect to work. StopTheMadness ensures that those features continue to work for you in Safari and Firefox:

Answer 2

Hateful 'web designers' absue their privilege to run code on our machines that restricts our tools and workflows. To get around this offensive behaviour by evil people, they should pay us damages. Not we should pay to get back to simply standard behaviour.

Alternatives to paying this hostage money for standard behaviour of our browsers would be found in some cases by disabling JavaScript completely or with more granularity. But that doesn't always work.

Some free extensions for Safari that re-enable standard workflows and rightclick behaviour would be:

RightClick:

This is a native Safari extension.
"Right Click" re-enables right click, select and copy on web sites. You can use the context menu, select and copy on websites which disable those functions when you need. ( 1.0.3, OS X 10.11.5 or later, 64-bit processor, Mar 1, 2019, Price: Free)

Smart Right Click:

https://safari-extensions.apple.com/details/?id=cf.mattijs.smartrightclick-7G36RSR4E4 Enables the right click menu everywhere. Detects what you’re trying to right click and temporarily disables any elements in the way. This means you'll be able to enter picture in picture mode with any video, download most images / videos and whatever else the right click menu usually has to offer.

Ultimately, Apple has to disable the ability of 'designers' to cripple Safari at the root completely. We should write that into our feedback forms we send to Apple.