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For Bluesky, sure. I think the comment was aimed at the trend. Android and iOS should not let apps do this, because it can be (ab)used by apps that you can’t really choose not to use. I know there’s a popular bank in my country that completely blocks screenshots and screen recordings on Android somehow.
https://developer.android.com/security/fraud-prevention/acti...
This is absolutely hostile to users.
That said, operating systems should turn this into a user choice, and present a dialog to select the “protected” version or not.
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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".…
> much sekhurity This feeling usually hits me at airports, with my shoes off and water confiscated. The terrorists won.
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Well damn, I would have thought rooting would have been a basic feature of GrapheneOS. At least it's open source, so maybe one can add root access and screenshot blocking to it.
GrapheneOS is concerned with security more than anything else, to which rooting is completely counterproductive
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> 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.
Can they do something similar so that caps include the full date/time? I hate when caps are perpetually “1 hour ago”.
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Yes, iOS has userDidTakeScreenshotNotification for that. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio...
Would be nice if the user could disable that.
The workaround is letting that person take a photo of my phone, which is lower quality.
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…
They find a good reason for every little piece of control or privacy they take from you.