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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
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Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
re: dead, I agree. I'm so tired of flags killing discussion. This site is highly regimented What I want, as someone who vaguely leaned left and has gotten... less so, since certain revelations, are platforms that work. Where you can't just get booted off for things that are not-boot-off-worthy (sorry. wording sucks). In that view, Bluesky is something I'm interested in as a protocol. It should be something the Left a…
From your profile:
> "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." = censorship. Unaccountable [flag] = censorship.
> Mass un-elaborated on downvoting = censorship; needing 500 karma to downvote = censorship.
> Turn on showdead in your profile and see for yourself what people are "allowed" to comment vs what they're not. Userbase = mendacious pricks.
Apparently everything is censorship and everybody else is a prick. It's always someone else's fault. There's never responsibility taken for mean-spiritedness or rule violations.
Ever considered that if this is the hill you're dying on, your takes are just terrible and getting flagged is just this site's natural selection?
No, it's everyone else who is wrong? OK then.
I mean, the dead comment in this one is dead because of: "You're just defending Bluesky because you're on the same team politically" which is an unnecessarily unkind, snarky, uncurious way to communicate. That last paragraph was unnecessary but it tainted the entire post.
From the site rules:
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
> Don't be curmudgeonly.
> Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
But, of course, it's everybody else's problem, never yours, never the owner of the dead comment.
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Reddit has a toggle in its settings to disable it. X, too, I think. Personally, I wish iOS didn't even facilitate this. edit: to be clear, I don't think iOS should notify the app at all. The app could register areas as "invisible to screenshots" perhaps - I'm torn on that functionality.
That's what bluesky is doing in this case. It is showing the button on an area that is "invisible to screenshots", and the butterfly is behind it, so it shows through when a screenshot is taken
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#304This is in fact a watermark to promote the application, which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. I didn't know that Sam literally named the file GrowthHack.tsx, which is pretty funny.
> which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app.
The text at the top of the screenshot is
> Eric Roston
> @eroston.bsky.social
So it's pretty easy to tell IMHO.
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#305This is in fact a watermark to promote the application, which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. I didn't know that Sam literally named the file GrowthHack.tsx, which is pretty funny.
> which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. The text at the top of the screenshot is > Eric Roston > @eroston.bsky.social So it's pretty easy to tell IMHO.
what happens when it’s a custom handle like @example.com?
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
LinkedIn’s job screen in the app is a good example of this different presentation. I’ve noticed a certain AI recruitment company gets “highlighted” (darkened white background of the screen, but their logo is pure white and REALLY stands out), but when I screenshot it, it reverts to normal, like there’s no blatant special advertising.
Different underlying mechanism. The LinkedIn one (and almost all ads on Instagram/Facebook these days) use a gain map to increase the brightness of the image. Here's a site demoing the tasteful application of this [0], you can see the difference viewing it live versus taking a screenshot of the result. [0]: https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-gain-map-gallery/
Ahhh gotcha, thanks for the info
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
you don't have a share button tha generates a PDF and shares it with whomever?
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#308This is why I use the browser version for anything. I’m using an actual user agent.
I was wondering about this as well; did they only test with the official iOS app? Or also through a mobile webbrowser?
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#309This 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.
Bank apps black out the whole screen when I take a screenshot and it’s super annoying. As a user, I should be able to take a screenshot of my screen. I can use a camera or another phone to do it anyway.
Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
"accidentally end up in a screenshot" --- how often do you even take a screenshot on a phone, much less accidentally?
i take many screenshots, but about half of them are accidental (somehow it recognizes the "tap three times" gesture whenever it feels about it)