How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots • Hacker News Board

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by clort » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

chongli wrote: post #387

clort wrote: post #328

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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?

I don't know about iOS but if it saves it to your Files and lets iOS deal with the synchronisation then it should not have any network permissions?

(I use KeePassDX from F-droid it does not have network permissions)

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by kotaKat » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

fc417fc802 wrote: post #434

kotaKat wrote: post #356

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I went to screenshot my upcoming Verizon Fios fiber install out of excitement and got an immediate warning dialog. WARNING: You are in violation of the My Fios app end user licensing agreement that prohibits duplication of this screen. Please immediately delete this from your device. ... apparently buried in the app T&Cs is a "Distribution of the technician's picture or information is prohibited". Even if there's no…

It warns you but it doesn't block or redact the screenshot? Also why are they sharing photos in the first place if they don't want them to be public?

Warned me but did not block or redact the screenshot at all. Absolutely funny. Of course, then I had to screenshot the warning...

https://i.ibb.co/hRnn4ssF/2026-08-18-12-48-25.jpg

So yeah, I have a screenshot of the generic technician's ID photo, I guess.

Later on it did populate an actual name and photo when a human was assigned, but still, yeah, I don't get why they didn't just automatically redact it and just throw you the stupidest bullshit warning error ever on the honor system.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by Insanity » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

That's smart, I quite like that approach. And it's a subtle enough logo that it wouldn't bother me on screenshots either.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by blauditore » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

V__ wrote: post #346

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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.

Well, then make it harder to accidentally make a screenshot. E.g. make the user confirm (and then memorize whatevr setting).

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by armadyl » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

mozzius wrote: post #264

skupig wrote: post #14

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It's equally possible there was one engineer with some free time who thought it would be cool.

This is correct. I was tired of Bluesky screenshots looking bland, no culture of fear needed

I agree with you. It’s a nice touch.

I also have no issue with the API, people here are definitely overreacting to it’s existence.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by zahlman » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #176

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…

Why is this feature bad? As someone who develops apps for confidential conversations, making it harder for people to screenshot the confidential stuff is a feature the sending party wants, that is why they send in your app as opposed to others. It doesn’t make things impossible, just hard enough that 95% of people won’t bother to take a copy. Same for example with disappearing audio messages on whatsapp What I don’t…

If you can't trust the intended recipient, a secure communication channel is pointless.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by joquarky » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

account42 wrote: post #423

lostlogin wrote: post #378

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> much sekhurity This feeling usually hits me at airports, with my shoes off and water confiscated. The terrorists won.

So did the airport and companies selling you overpriced water beyond the security screening.

The terrorists and the large corporations are looking very similar these days.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by runako » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #449

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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…

The user should be the ultimate authority of what their computers do, not the app developer. It's my phone, not the app developer's phone. If my phone has a "screenshot" function, I expect to be able to invoke it whenever I want, not whenever some app developer deems it OK.

I hear your perspective. I am not particularly advocating either position. I am just pointing out that the alternative may be fewer apps available on one's favorite platform. Everything is tradeoffs, and fortunately one can always boot into an OS that will screenshot how you want.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by djhn » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 9:44 PM UTC

red369 wrote: post #300

rmwaite wrote: post #196

On iOS, if you swipe control center down and then back up but don’t lift your finger, the screenshot will not have the logo. I do this with Twitter so my screenshots don’t have the X logo.

Interesting that this works. I know I have been frustrated recently when trying to take a screenshot of a bank transfer or something similar, but I couldn't find which app that was to test again. I tested on the iOS Passwords app, and I couldn't get the trick to work in that. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong, or it only works in specific apps. Each time I tried to take a screenshot of a password, the password wa…

I also tested this and couldn’t get the pull down method to work: Spotify still shows its annoying post-screenshot menu.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by abustamam » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 9:47 PM UTC

squigz wrote: post #441

fluoridation wrote: post #333

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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.

I just ran into a signup/login flow that allows pasting of passwords to register but not to login. Very frustrating.

I once ran into a signup/login flow that allowed 36 characters in password when signing up but when logging in, the password field was limited to 20 characters.

I think I must have changed my password several times thinking I just copied it wrong or it had special characters that weren't allowed, but nope, the truth was somehow stupider than that.