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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 zrobotics »

Waterluvian wrote: post #91
mikepurvis wrote: post #77

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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 te…

The other reason someone might want a screenshot specifically isn't to share a location, but to share a route. For instance, I might want to text a friend a screenshot of my driving route. Maps can sometimes route weirdly, so this is definitely a use-case I've needed before.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jadengeller wrote: post #94

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…

B is an illusion, and it seems like about 90% of the time it's used for dumb or bad purposes even if it did work.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by jerezzprime »

umeshunni wrote: post #25
fer wrote: post #10

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> 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.

I bet this is the inverse problem. Someone thought "oh a prescription is definitely privacy sensitive information, I should ensure the OS does the right thing" not realizing this counter productive behavior.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by computably »

jambalaya8 wrote: post #130
Barbing wrote: post #79

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Can Snapchat no longer inform the other user when a screenshot was taken?

can someone just take a picture of the phone with another phone, or use a screen recorder?

Security is never absolute, it always "merely" raises barriers.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by dev1ycan »

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…

This is what made me avoid chrome since release, I tried to right click a youtube channel background as a teen wanting to use it as a template to make my own channel background on photoshop... turns out they had disabled it, while I could on firefox.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by computably »

pembrook wrote: post #100
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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Uh, no? I highly doubt that a non-occluding watermark on screenshots is even in the top 100 gripes most people have with X. And I don't use either platform. If anything your argument is an accusation of bias without any discussion of merits.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by yesyoudo »

yesyoudo wrote: post #135
pfraze wrote: post #110

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We really need better haters

Really, can’t find any on a network as vast and populated as Bluesky?? Where anyone can say anything? Maybe it’s so decentralized there is a dark web within BlueSky now! DarkSky

Firehose -> Shadowhose

Now anyone can access the decentralized shadowhose from our server

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