How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Post by ErigmolCt » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:54 AM 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.

Post by jocelyner » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:56 AM UTC

Post by sschueller » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #194

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.

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…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:04 AM UTC

smelendez wrote: post #236

nemosaltat wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time Do you/should you (we) really expect that though? I regularly use color filters on my apple devices— grayscale to avoid distractions during the day and red tint at night. More recently I’ve been using the motion dots. I don’t know that I can say with confidence that I never want any of those “personal-perceptional-modifiers” to ap…

I want those things included, at least by default. A screenshot normally captures the user’s screen size, brightness, zoom level, font choices, etc. It is often important to people that the screenshot is an accurate record of what was on the screen.

Post by nxc18 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 6:09 AM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #189

nxc18 wrote: post #186

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Is it a “bad reason”? Millions of people chose to use Snapchat specifically because of how it handles screenshots. It is a feature even if you don’t like it. Many people would find it inconvenient to find another device to take a picture with. And that manual picture would then have baked-in evidence that it was taken surreptitiously. Locks keep honest people honest, as long as the app is up front about it and lets u…

I said 90% and not a higher number because of Snapchat. It's not the example of bad reasons. Nobody deliberately opted in to random information hiding in a more general purpose app, or watermarking, or DRM.