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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 Telaneo »

nemosaltat wrote: post #183
skiing_crawling wrote: post #29

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.

> I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time Do you/should you (we) really expect that though? I regularly use color filters on my apple devices— grayscale to avoid distractions during the day and red tint at night. More recently I’ve been using the motion dots. I don’t know that I can say with confidence that I never want any of those “personal-perceptional-modifiers” to ap…

> Do you/should you (we) really expect that though?

Yes.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by saghm »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #288
saghm wrote: post #224

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Use a device with an operating system that doesn't think it knows better than you what you want.

You're not that unlikely to leave that feature in place if you have such an operating system. What you really want is two controls: one for "safe screenshot", and another for "raw screenshot".

I can pretty confidently state that I've never once felt that having raw screenshots on such an operating system (e.g. desktop Linux) were missing any feature like this.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by DavidD »

mwmiller wrote: post #247
DavidD wrote: post #244

Does anyone know a way to do this for a computer? I built a p2ppoker website the protects the shuffle from the server but I would like to blank the cards on screenshots to prevent huds and AIs from making the game unplayable.

I’m interested in reading more about this. how does p2ppoker work out?

https://p2ppoker.com/#how - I will opensource it soon just need some time to write it up

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by geocar »

MBCook wrote: post #414
geocar wrote: post #339

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> it doesn’t accidentally end up in a screenshot Your banking app probably has an option to disable that because it's a legal requirement in so many places: People who can't see need to use assistive tools, and that includes screenshots and friends. If you are using a tiny/stupid bank in the US, file a ADA claim and get some money. In the EU check your Ombudsman. No, it's so you can't screen-record Netflix. The bank…

iOS and MacOS have a large number of built-in accessibility features. Taking a screenshot of the screen is not necessary.

> iOS and MacOS have a large number of built-in accessibility features.

Great. Which one is sending a "do I know this person?" message to my friend?

Because it _used_ to be taking a screenshot.

> Taking a screenshot of the screen is not necessary.

Who are you to tell me what is necessary?

Seriously. What the fuck.

Someone who takes a screenshot of something, and gets anything other than a screenshot is potentially being harmed in ways you don't understand, and you say it isn't necessary like you know that or something?

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by godelski »

saagarjha wrote: post #466
godelski wrote: post #287

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Okay? Is the purpose bad? Leading to bad things? What's the problem

The problem is bad things being created.

I agree, but is the bad thing what Bluesky did or what Apple did?

One bad thing is pointing the finger at the wrong person. It lets the person doing the bad things get away with doing bad things.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by devmor »

ruszki wrote: post #246
devmor wrote: post #204

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No, it's about saving the bank money - and what costs them a lot of money is the average person being fooled into sending people their account information easily.

But every bank app which I used had a button to copy all of those directly.

I’ve never used a bank app that doesn’t make you go through hoops to even show them, let alone copy them.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by conductr »

MBCook wrote: post #416
conductr wrote: post #229

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If a dev forgot to obfuscate the password and rendered it as plain text on the screen, then what are the chances they remember to program the blur into this screenshot api hook. Or why not add an alert, “what me to blur sensitive info? Yes/No”

Doing it correctly requires setting a single Boolean. That’s it. The OS will do everything else for you if you don’t override it. There’s no need to implement a custom blur.

Sounds like that’s a heavy handed dev friendly solution, but also plenty of comments around this post about why what’s not user friendly. Common theme of People needing to capture the info on a screenshot and don’t want it blurred on a screenshot. The Boolean flag to trigger the blur should be user input. The option to blur can be set by dev but user gets control as to whether it triggers or not.

Good to hear it’s pretty straightforward on the dev side I guess, I can’t tell if this is a net benefit as a feature. I think my opinion is still rooted in user needs and I’d simply expect they are responsible for their screen shots and what sensitive info they may contain. So this feature as it exists is not a net good thing.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by CrimsonRain »

j16sdiz wrote: post #254
CrimsonRain wrote: post #225

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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

Lots of people here exposing their single sign on approve code because a scammer ask them to send them a screenshot.

the solution to that is letting those people get scammed.
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