How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots • Hacker News Board

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by Razengan » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC

bethekidyouwant wrote: post #47

Razengan wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blame Apple for even allowing apps to be aware of the user taking a screenshot. Just like their iCloud Keychain API that lets apps secretly track users across app reinstalls and device resets.

Getting your account back on reinstall is good

I can fucking type my username and password, thank you.

And I prefer to see and choose the data an app stores on my fucking ICLOUD ACCOUNT. And fucking DELETE it when I want.

There's no way to do that from an iOS device.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by spike021 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC

skiing_crawling wrote: post #29

This is phone OS developer's fault for even allowing it. When I take a screenshot, I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time. Its not a picture of your app, its a picture of my screen. Some banking apps used to (or still) prevent this and now some apps get a hook to insert their branding. My device serves some master other than myself.

iOS allows something similar. twitter (X) will also add a logo. I believe reddit did the same but i stopped using their app a while ago.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by kimos » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC

Perplexity does this on web by adding a logo in response to key combos for normal screenshot shortcuts.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by rbaudibert » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC

hmokiguess wrote: post #37

rbaudibert wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's how a modern organization works. You trust your colleagues will do good work, and will ship something useful and there's not really "someone to go through". I agree this can be defined as cool and very very likely someone did this on their free time/prompted Claude on the side.

It's a Series B company, it needs to make money, and they have to answer to a board and provide information to investors. They have a roadmap, direction, and leadership. Yes, trust and good intentions is an awesome thing and I hope they have that indeed, but I would think reality lies in the middle of both sides.

I've worked at a Series B company and reality is this is too minor for investors to care on its own, and it's also very hard to correlate this change to new revenue, so not something that's likely to have been done with that intention

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by dc443 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC

thepasswordis wrote: post #38

3form wrote: post #2

Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help. It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes aw…

It is actually astonishing to me that this is not something which can be turned off at the OS level, or as a permission setting in the app permissions. The app knowing I took a screenshot feels adjacent to me to a keylogger. Imagine how many apps are capturing that information silently. To my mind, a screenshot is something that is happening outside of the app context, the app knowing about it is a security flaw imo.

but you didn't read the part where the mechanism is explained? it doesn't do anything like capturing information. it just marks a button "sensitive" causing it to be hidden in a screenshot, thus revealing an icon that was put there underneath the button.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by wolvoleo » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

umeshunni wrote: post #25

fer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> hostile and annoying If someone from Google Maps or LinkedIn team is here, please, when I take a screenshot it's because I want to a screenshot, not share the friggin location/post. Not sure who got the idea that it was useful, it isn't.

Today I noticed that Amazon Pharmacy decided to blank out my prescription info that I was screenshotting to send to my doctor. WTF.

And if you take a screenshot of a product in the Amazon app it hijacks that and copies a link instead.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by tchalla » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

3form wrote: post #2

Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help. It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes aw…

Side note- The Screenshot culture itself needs to die, sorry. Many a time, a share button simply works. I don’t know why people would share a screenshot or a map instead of pin and share their location. Yes there are cases where a screenshot helps but majority cases simply is “come to this place” a which turns out to make more difficult because people apparently don’t know how to share locations with pin and share!

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by andai » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

3form wrote: post #2

Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help. It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes aw…

When I take a screenshot in ChatGPT, it shows a "share this chat?" toast at the top.

The toast shows up after the screenshot, but my phones's long screenshot feature captures the top part a second time, so the top part of the chat becomes unreadable.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by araeyn » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

thepasswordis wrote: post #38

3form wrote: post #2

Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help. It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes aw…

It is actually astonishing to me that this is not something which can be turned off at the OS level, or as a permission setting in the app permissions. The app knowing I took a screenshot feels adjacent to me to a keylogger. Imagine how many apps are capturing that information silently. To my mind, a screenshot is something that is happening outside of the app context, the app knowing about it is a security flaw imo.

Did you read the article? Bluesky doesn't know you're taking a screenshot, iOS just hides the follow button in the screenshot (consequently making the Bluesky logo visible).

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by AshamedCaptain » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

umeshunni wrote: post #25

fer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> hostile and annoying If someone from Google Maps or LinkedIn team is here, please, when I take a screenshot it's because I want to a screenshot, not share the friggin location/post. Not sure who got the idea that it was useful, it isn't.

Today I noticed that Amazon Pharmacy decided to blank out my prescription info that I was screenshotting to send to my doctor. WTF.

From the same lunacy that forces me to write my 30-something character Wi-Fi password on a "secure password field" that only shows me the last character, almost ensuring that I will make an unlimited number of typos and spend way too much time for something that should only take 30 seconds.

It's not clear who it is protecting against, it does not seem to be effective at protecting against anything at all, it is actively annoying to the user, and has no way to disable. Perfect example of the usual "security theater" feature.