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Simplest way is to use another phone to take a screenshot
Simplest way is to use another phone to take a screenshot That's not a screenshot. That's a photograph.
If you take a screenshot in the camera app, it's both!
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Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#332You can use scrcpy ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy ) to bypass the policy if you really need to have a screenshot. All you need is to have a Linux laptop at hand, debug mode enabled, and a USB cable plugged in. Super simple stuff right? (this is satire!) Now, I'm as frustrated as anybody else here that I'm forbidden to use whatever feature I want from MY phone, for which I paid, with MY MOENY (and nobody else'…
Linux phones!!! There’s still a lot of dev work to be done but this is exactly why I’m on board with the pinephone. not a daily driver yet, but if you’re a programmer looking for something to contribute to, go check it out
Amen to Linux Phones. We need more choices!
I got so sick of these kind of shenanigans, I built a simple, non-mobile phone with a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a Raspberry Pi 7 inch touchscreen, and a Logitech headset. It runs off Wi-Fi or Ethernet only.
It does voice and SMS only, but it does what it does very well. I wrote all the software myself (Python3 and C).
I've been using this as my daily driver for over a year now.
I'm planning to make it available to the public soon. All of it will be open source, of course. My goal is an open source alternative to Apple/Google.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
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Sure, but iOS users such as myself prefer no side loading, primarily because I see no reason to side load any applications.
Have you considered that even though you don't need it now, you could at any time in the future have some kind of disagreement with Apple about what kind of apps should be allowed on iOS (consider the Fortnite issue for example) and by that point, vendor lock-in would make it impractical to change platforms?
Sure it’s possible, although it appears to be unlikely. But in the worst case I can go without a phone. Fortnite was a great example of how the platform > any single app. I sided with Apple completely.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
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No. "Disappearing" messages are a farce. Disabling other people's screenshot capability so someone can be made to believe that their message will disappear is absurd. If you want a message that disappears, tell them in person and pat them down for a wire. Also there's nothing wrong with simply screenshotting licensed content. I'm allowed to do so for my own personal use. If someone is distributing licensed content th…
Signal app on Android blocks screenshots too (configurable). Does that mean that they are clueless about security?
No, but it's a false sense of security for users. Nothing stops me from just using a separate camera to take a picture of the screen.
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> You are avoiding my point. I addressed your point directly. You claimed content might not be available otherwise (and that this is the reason consumers want DRM), I gave examples that showed that to be obviously false. And DRM is much more than just not banned - it's illegal to circumvent , thanks to DMCA. > And if you don't like it, don't subscribe. I don't. But you're still not happy - I guess you'd also like me…
What bothers me is the constant hypocrisy of HN. Encryption is good, private companies should be allowed to use encryption however they want, but them using encryption for DRM or SecureBoot is bad. The market is right, except when it chooses DRM products or big slim smartphones with unchangeable battery and no headphone jack. Then it's bad. What's the consumer damage done by Netflix having DRM? Where are the damaged…
It's all about the attacker model. "Legitimate"encryption is for protecting all involved parties against 3rd parties. DRM is, in contrast, hostile against the owner of the device. Where is the hypocrisy?
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#336I'm a bit confused, reading through comments here, this seemed like some nefarious issue, reading the conversation thread in the op though it seems like an error with the .nomedia file in the folder that's fixed by either appending a second dot to the front of the file name or removing the file. I'm still unclear whether this was some intentional issue or an error. The fix seems easy enough, if a bit opaque and non-o…
Yes this thread is just by people not actually reading the thread in the top in combination with a misleading support article subject..
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#337This is where a small bit of editorializing in the post title might be useful. The linked page is about a bug when you use .nomedia which is kind of interesting in it's own right. However most replies here seem to be on the broader topic of whether an OS should be able to block screenshots - this is another interesting topic but one that's only vaguely related to the linked page. I'm curious if the /u/distalx posted…
Android certainly does have a feature to block screenshots in apps though.
A feature that's existed for over a decade and doesn't really seem to be an issue nor abused?
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#338A bunch of comments here are assuming this is something intentional on Google's part. Simply from the error message alone, it's obvious that this is a bug. As well as from how easy the workaround is. Google might do many things wrong intentionally, but I see zero evidence this is one of them. Just a bug, folks.
This is a feature: FLAG_SECURE is real and used by many apps. i.e. Chrome's Incognito mode. Sure, you have workarounds for power-users, but Google is locking the Android ecosystem progressively for regular users. Just like the Manifest v3 for Chrome. Maybe Google is doing the "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy that worked really well for Microsoft in the past.
> but Google is locking the Android ecosystem progressively for regular users.
FLAG_SECURE has existed for as long as Android has. It can't possibly be evidence of locking down the ecosystem progressively as it's always been part of the ecosystem.
Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered that even though you don't need it now, you could at any time in the future have some kind of disagreement with Apple about what kind of apps should be allowed on iOS (consider the Fortnite issue for example) and by that point, vendor lock-in would make it impractical to change platforms?
Sure it’s possible, although it appears to be unlikely. But in the worst case I can go without a phone. Fortnite was a great example of how the platform > any single app. I sided with Apple completely.
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Re: Taking screenshots isn't allowed by the app after upgrading to Android 11
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How is that user-hostile?
See all the other comments on this page.
From all the people making up wild ass nonsensical shit with no relation to link? The link is a bug. Screenshots stop working if there's a .nomedia file in the screenshot directory, removing it fixes it. That file isn't normally there and it's unclear how it ended up there, but it's just a silly bug. There hasn't been any policy change. Nothing changed with screenshots. They behave the same way today that they did 5 years ago.