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# How to download protected image
- URL: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/how-to-download-protected-image/
- Published: 2020-07-13T07:24:39.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-13T07:24:39.000Z
- Description: For example, Instagram. Save photos from this social network is not so easy even after the installation of special extensions. And all because the service protects images with a special invisible layer.
- Author: Konstantin Dokuchaev
- Tags: Chrome, Firefox, behind!

For example, Instagram. Save photos from this social network is not so easy even after the installation of special extensions. And all because the service protects images with a special invisible layer. And there are several similar protection scenarios.

*This is autotranslated version of [this post](https://blog.themarfa.name/kak-skachat-zashchishchiennuiu-kartinku/).*

**behind!**  will help you download the image that the mouse is over.

To download the image, hover the cursor on it, right click and in the drop down menu select "behind!".

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2020/07/image-34.png)

Thereafter, a separate tab will open all possible options for the images to load.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2020/07/image-35.png)

The download is available for images protected by the most popular ways:

- background pictures;
- hidden behind an invisible layer and such means;
- embedded images or encoded in base64;
- alternative solutions;
- vector image;
- image for shadow DOM

[Download for Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/behind/blfpdedbdighagggfhgihcocfheicfjk) | [Download for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/behind/)