How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Post by squigz » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

fluoridation wrote: post #333

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".…

On a similar note in terms of frustration, my bank ended up getting me to memorize my randomly-generated passwords twice because it blocked pasting. I guess it's to discourage writing them down in plaintext files, but I bet it just makes most people choose meaningful (and therefore weak and guessable) passwords.

Post by ryandrake » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 3:59 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #435

fc417fc802 wrote: post #432

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> before pausing and realizing that this would only cause even more problems with those apps, In my view that's a feature, not a bug. I refuse to use services that break under "reasonable" conditions (non-chrome, ublock, no widevine, rooted, etc, etc).

I feel that too, but the practical reality is, many services happily exploit the leverage they have over me - I need them more than they need me. Banks are the canonical example - changing one is a huge hurdle, with consequences that can drag on for years. One by one, they're all ditching their websites (if they had one in the first place) in favor of apps. Even those with full-featured websites increasingly force yo…

Post by account42 » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #362

underwater wrote: post #221

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The OS could draw an ugly censoring block over the sensitive information. That would protect the user's privacy when needed but also prevent apps mis-using the feature like this.

It could. But the root problem is, there is no such thing as unqualified "sensitive information". The information is sensitive to someone , for some reason . The problem with screenshots manifests when the app and the user disagrees about whether the information is sensitive and who has the right to control it. The immediate technical problem is that OSes allow apps to declare what is "sensitive", and then follow tho…

Post by demux » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

expedited123 wrote: post #282

shepherdjerred wrote: post #230

This is a pretty cool, harmless hack honestly. I don’t see how you could be mad at it.

It feels restrictive, especially since it’s part of a broader pattern of limiting user freedom on platforms. For instance, on PC you can't simply right click on a video and save it on bluesky. They add some frontend bullshit to prevent you from doing that. On "new" Reddit I remember when you saved an image it would always have a watermark on it. On PC, you can't preview the raw image/video either. On Instagram you ca…

Post by ryandrake » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

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…