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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 abustamam »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #408
setopt wrote: post #407

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There might be a market for a USB-C camera to take phone screen photos to immediately upload back into the phone.

Yeah, few moments ago it hit me there could be a market for a phone case with in-built camera(s) that photograph your screen at a shallow angle on demand, and transform that into a screenshot automatically. However, my idea happens to hit a very new limitation: for some reason, "privacy filters" are suddenly a thing. New phones have them built-in as some new magic display function, and for everyone else, there's this…

Recently handled someone's phone who had it. Neat technology. But the use case for it doesn't make sense, for the reason you specified.

The only thing I could think of is if you want to browse TikTok or Instagram in public and don't want people seeing the weird shit that's on your algorithm, but even then, that's kinda weird.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by wolvoleo »

drbscl wrote: post #374
pfraze wrote: post #68

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I know you don't think it's bluesky, but which app do you think is better at putting its logo on screenshots?

That's not what the other commenter is saying. The other commenter is stating that by doing this logo trick, bsky is very similar to competing platforms

Yes that's what I meant. Blue sky was supposed to be better than them.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by fluoridation »

abustamam wrote: post #460
squigz wrote: post #441

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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.

I've seen that too. I was so mad when I finally figured it out.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by ruszki »

runako wrote: post #426
ruszki wrote: post #250

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But… but they allowed. For a long time. Netflix didn’t need that.

Incorrect. There's a log written about this on the Internet. Suffice to say that Netflix did not allow all of their titles to be viewed on all browsers for years after it was technically feasible.

You are right, I remembered wrong. Netflix degraded the quality for me for years, according to them because of lack of DRM. It was because of lack of hardware DRM.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by zapzupnz »

alex1138 wrote: post #375
alex1138 wrote: post #336

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You're not wrong and I do think that specific dead comment is dead for a reason. I just get a bit bristly when I do see legitimate comments buried under flags

PS - sorry. I love a great many things about HN. I'm glad the site does sometimes insist on decorum

You responded better than I thought you might, credit where credit's due. Have a good one.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by dspillett »

Jtarii wrote: post #404
dspillett wrote: post #376

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Unfortunately “are you sure?” checks simply don't work, too many people are trained to just click yes/OK to close the message and get back to what they were trying to do.

Well, it sounds like those people are just too stupid to own phones at all then.

To careless, not too stupid, at least in most cases.

The same can be said wrt people being too careless to have their car/bike/etc. Or powertools.

In any of those cases, just try take them away and see how that goes…

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by woadwarrior01 »

mylies43 wrote: post #428
retired wrote: post #279

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Would be nice if the user could disable that.

I think at least in snap it makes sense, the communications are suppose to be ethereal and disappear after reading, I like to know when someone screenshots something and its no longer ethereal

There's an unspecified short/random delay between the user taking the screenshot and the notification firing. The trick used by Bluesky, Telegram etc is using a different technique. They (mis)use secure input fields to show an overlay when the user takes a screenshot.

Re: How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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Post by Telaneo »

userbinator wrote: post #289
MBCook wrote: post #194

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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…

"accidentally end up in a screenshot" --- how often do you even take a screenshot on a phone, much less accidentally?

My phone has its volume buttons placed in an asinine way, so far more often than I should.
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