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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 voidUpdate »

RugnirViking wrote: post #358
voidUpdate wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't respond to it. It simply says "this button is part of sensitive content", and the OS itself hides the sensitive content, revealing the image below it

have you never encountered the plague of apps saying "don't screenshot, our content looks so much better when you share it, see:" and then displaying a picture of the stupidest looking thing youve ever seen in your life as though you would ever consider showing that to your friends instead of the most personal thing - literally showing them what youre seeing with your own eyes

No, and that's not what bluesky is doing

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by GlumWoodpecker »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #327
monegator wrote: post #307

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you don't have a share button tha generates a PDF and shares it with whomever?

Often, you don't, because the same developers of the bank app decided it's an unnecessary power user feature that doesn't fit in the MVP or something. Or, even if they add it, there's no way to save the file, only to "share" it, which 99% of the times isn't what I want, and I'm frankly tired of routing through the mail app as a workaround. At this point, at least on Android side, there exist apps whose sole purpose i…

Here's an open source solution on F-Droid, presumably malware-free:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mateusrodcosta.apps.share2s...

https://github.com/MateusRodCosta/SaveLocally

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

blauditore wrote: post #319
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…

I actually hate that apps are allowed to blank out content on screenshots, and this can't be disabled. There are apps completely mis-using it, e.g. mobile payment apps which hardly show any sensitive data in most cases, but now I can't share e.g. infos on screen with someone else easily. It's a classic case of someone discovering a feature and thinking "hell yeah, so much security" without understanding or caring abo…

I get why it's the default but anyone who'd had to navigate an elderly relative around their banking app just via them describing the screen because iOS blanks it out when screen sharing definitely wishes there was a way to opt out of it.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by thomasnowhere »

wmichelin wrote: post #203

I know of social media sites who have kept an untracked version of the link in the dom of the A tag, but replace it with their in-house link tracker copy of it as you're clicking, that way the destination looks correct when you hover over the link.

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Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by chewbacha »

Actually, I’m a little worried by what this post demonstrates but not the logo or the use of the api.

I’m worried that switching apps and screenshots _doesn’t_ put the logo in. If the point of the switch is privacy, isn’t that a bug? Shouldn’t it apply the privacy screen during any screenshot? What if there was sensitive information on there when you were switching and taking the screenshot?

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by chongli »

clort wrote: post #328
chongli wrote: post #226

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Do they work on iOS?

Keepass database is an openly documented format, and there are several apps available on iOS that use it and can store the database in your iCloud (ie syncthing is not required, unless you need to sync to non-iOS devices) Just search for keepass in the app store (Keepassium, KeePass Touch, Strongbox, ...)

I see there are a lot of Keepass apps in the App Store. How do I trust the developers not to steal my credentials though?

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by rplnt »

flir wrote: post #377
TeMPOraL wrote: post #324

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> I've yet to see someone saying "oh, I'm so glad my screenshot was blacked-out because I didn't realize I was in a banking app". It feels patronizing. Yes, this. Payment apps, government apps, IM communications. The other day I almost rooted my phone in anger trying to get around this, before pausing and realizing that this would only cause even more problems with those apps, thanks to remote attestation "features".…

We're heading for two devices, IMO. A useful one and one for communicating with bureaucracies.

And a third one for membership apps.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by j1elo »

V__ wrote: post #346
blauditore wrote: post #319

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually hate that apps are allowed to blank out content on screenshots, and this can't be disabled. There are apps completely mis-using it, e.g. mobile payment apps which hardly show any sensitive data in most cases, but now I can't share e.g. infos on screen with someone else easily. It's a classic case of someone discovering a feature and thinking "hell yeah, so much security" without understanding or caring abo…

I understand the sentiment, but think about the non-technical user. Every time I use my mothers or any elderlies phone there are a lot of screenshots in the gallery, because they accidentally click the combo. How many people get scammed using screen sharing? It isn't that unreasonable to prevent this vector just to be more safe, especially if the bank might be partially at fault if a scam happens.

Add a system setting to ON/OFF this feature. Add a recommendation to set this as ON in the "Security Checkup" section which all modern systems have as of lately, that pops-up a couple times a year for suggesting good defaults to the user.

Done.

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