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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by Waterluvian »

mikepurvis wrote: post #77
Waterluvian wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's of course about lock-in. In the early Web-GIS era there were a few competing but popular notation standards for sharing lat/lon/zoom/ that was meant to be human readable and compatible with any WMS or similar. Ah... to imagine a world where you could just share a coordinate string and people could open it in whatever map app/page they wanted. Geo URI is probably the closest we have today but I don't think much o…

I think that's actually a separate issue. What I specifically want from a Google Maps share URL is for it to be something I can send over text that will reproduce for my recipient exactly what I see. A lat/lon/zoom/start?/dest? is kind of what a Google Maps share currently is, but it's neither an interoperable standard nor a reliable capture of the current state, so really the worst of both worlds. (Also, hi AB! Nice…

Hi! I think I’m on the same page (give or take a zoom level) now. That is hard to do between separate geodatabases (hence CRS, placenames, geocoding, etc.) but Google isn’t even doing it within their own. And the only way I can obtain a link is to first place a pin, which wants to snap to nearby features. If I try to link a nice trail near my home it snaps to the quarry instead, making me look like a maniac with a terrible idea of what a “quiet walk” looks like.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by whyrusleeping »

hmokiguess wrote: post #17
skupig wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's equally possible there was one engineer with some free time who thought it would be cool.

And such engineer would have enough organizational clout to just ship it without going through anyone?

Yes actually Sam often ships random fun things he feels like doing.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by akersten »

zzo38computer wrote: post #76

If the feature can sometimes be useful (including this situation, which some other comments mentioned; but also for other things such as hiding actual secure data), then perhaps it should be made as a setting which can be changed in the setting menu (e.g. "Exclude secure data from screenshots"; it should also mention which apps use this feature), so prevent abuse. (This would also make it clear what the feature is, a…

That such a setting does not exist suggests the feature's true purpose is not for the end user's own benefit!

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by jadengeller »

Tangentially, I see a lot of people here upset that apps can react to your screenshot before it is captured. I think it is helpful to think about it as a tradeoff between freedoms:

(a) the freedom to screenshot any content on your own device (b) the freedom to share content with others that cannot be screenshotted

It can be annoying when DRM or privacy features block a screenshot, but I think it can also benefit the platform ecosystem that you participate in as a user too. Idk!

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by pfraze »

AlexAplin wrote: post #70
skupig wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's equally possible there was one engineer with some free time who thought it would be cool.

It's probably silly to make OP's judgement of any of these implementations in isolation, but you can sense a real fear about the growth (or lack thereof) inside Bluesky. Fiddling with the presented metrics (likes count getting moved ahead of reposts), promoting total user signups while being silent on collapsing DAUs. They are promising a lot at once with AI custom feeds from Attie and subreddit-style communities tha…

Your indicators that we're afraid about growth is that we're shipping features and experimental new products?

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by tom1337 »

ivan888 wrote: post #80

> The “Follow” button is visible when I take the screenshot mid-switch. Does this indicate that the privacy feature has a gap, where you could reveal the length of your password if you take a screenshot mid app switch?

No because per default the input is not cleared when screenshotting. If you‘d implement this yourself for security reasons you'd most likely blur / overlay the whole screen when the app enters background state.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by [deleted] »

pfraze wrote: post #95
AlexAplin wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's probably silly to make OP's judgement of any of these implementations in isolation, but you can sense a real fear about the growth (or lack thereof) inside Bluesky. Fiddling with the presented metrics (likes count getting moved ahead of reposts), promoting total user signups while being silent on collapsing DAUs. They are promising a lot at once with AI custom feeds from Attie and subreddit-style communities tha…

Your indicators that we're afraid about growth is that we're shipping features and experimental new products?

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Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by OJFord »

ivan888 wrote: post #80

> The “Follow” button is visible when I take the screenshot mid-switch. Does this indicate that the privacy feature has a gap, where you could reveal the length of your password if you take a screenshot mid app switch?

Probably, but to the extent that was at all a problem to begin with, multiply it by another 0.0001 or whatever for the threat of the screenshot being taken mid switch away!

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by pembrook »

jjcm wrote: post #49

If it's between this and a perpetual logo, I'll take this any day. I actually really like this approach. The action button isn't relevant in this context, and it doesn't occlude the content. There's certainly situations where you wouldn't want this (ie if you're developing the app and you want to redesign starting from a screenshot), but for the average user I think this isn't overly hostile. I understand that people…

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