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Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by smelendez »

CrimsonRain wrote: post #225
MBCook wrote: post #194

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This exists for a very good reason. It’s so if an app is showing a password or bank account number or other piece of sensitive information it doesn’t accidentally end up in a screenshot. I think there are other places sensitive information won’t show. Bluesky, and apparently others, are abusing the functionality for advertising purposes. I think it’s a good thing it’s there. This functionality should be easy for apps…

I want to take a screen shot of the transaction I just did. Can't because some ahole decided for me that it's too sensitive information and blacks out the whole screen. this API is stupid without control in settings of the os

Yeah, I would rather see a warning in that case that the screenshot could contain sensitive information, with options to take a redacted screenshot or a normal one.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by saghm »

irishcoffee wrote: post #217
Petersipoi wrote: post #199

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Not sure why you think anyone is suggesting that non-occluding watermarks are a gripe people have with X. GP is saying that BS gets a pass where X would not for a user hostile action.

Yeah, the dead comment really cements the bias of hn despite what people claim. I don’t use either platform, I have no interest in the debate. As an outsider looking in, the bias has been proven. Not that it matters much, I am left-of-center generally speaking.

I don't think this says a whole lot about the direction of people's political views here as much as there being a general disdain for arbitrary claims of political bias that aren't based on any discernible evidence. I feel pretty confident that if I jumped into a random thread about some feature in the Brave browser and accused someone of defending it only because they agreed with Brendan Eich on Prop 8, I would get flagged too.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by smelendez »

snailmailman wrote: post #150
efskap wrote: post #111

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The app actually is notified after the screenshot is taken: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio... Android does it too: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/features/scr...

Spotify uses this and it annoys me all the time. If you screenshot what you are listening to, after the screenshot is taken spotify will open a full-screen popup to "share" the song you are listening to. This is quite dumb, especially since if you wanted to share a song via the screenshot, you can do so in the OS-level screenshot UI, and then you would close it and see Spotify's own similar version of the same UI. Sp…

Yes, it is very annoying. But I think they are already tracking you.

They want use to use the share button so your recipient is more likely to open Spotify (or whatever app) themselves.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by ruszki »

devmor wrote: post #204
KennyBlanken wrote: post #169

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The thing that really irritates me about the banking apps blocking screenshots is that it's pretty clear to me it's not about protecting customers but denying customers the ability to document something related to their account.

No, it's about saving the bank money - and what costs them a lot of money is the average person being fooled into sending people their account information easily.

But every bank app which I used had a button to copy all of those directly.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by mwmiller »

DavidD wrote: post #244

Does anyone know a way to do this for a computer? I built a p2ppoker website the protects the shuffle from the server but I would like to blank the cards on screenshots to prevent huds and AIs from making the game unplayable.

I’m interested in reading more about this. how does p2ppoker work out?

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by smelendez »

jerezzprime wrote: post #134
umeshunni wrote: post #25

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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.

Yeah, health information is interesting in general because it needs to be kept strictly secret from unauthorized people, but people also often need or want to share their own information and have every legal and moral right to do so.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by isodev »

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.

if only there was some kind of app review process... but Apple doesn't care.

I guess the Bluesky bros got inspired by Threads, again.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by ruszki »

runako wrote: post #211
zahlman wrote: post #106

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> This is the same technology that prevents you from accidentally screenshotting your password manager Yes, and I would say it's a bad thing that the OS tries to prevent this. > seeing “follow” on every screenshotted post is just useless noise, but a small unobtrusive platform icon is a useful reminder that the post came from Bluesky and not another very visually similar service like X(cancel) or Mastodon. I would sa…

> Yes, and I would say it's a bad thing that the OS tries to prevent this. Another way to look at it is the OS makes certain guarantees to the developer around security. Giving control of this to the user would erode that guarantee from the OS to the developer. The result of that is that some developers would simply never display some information (e.g. due to their own contracts or reasonable concerns about fraud/abu…

But… but they allowed. For a long time. Netflix didn’t need that.
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