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Holy shit. That’s overkill for a texting app for high schoolers.
by quenix 6y ago
Holy shit. That’s overkill for a texting app for high schoolers.
- valuearb 6y agoWell it used to be for Dick pics.
- quenix 6y agothe funniest thing is that you can still simply enable airplane mode, screenshot, and delete the app this doesn't really do jack
- vorpalhex 6y agoOr the truely great hack of just taking a photo of your screen with another device, which my elderly aunt uses not only for perserving snapchats but also for forwarding word docs and emails. You can't actually fix a people problem with a technology solution, but maybe you can get rich selling technology solutions all the same.
- skrowl 6y agoI remember back in the the late 90s when my dad asked me for a javascript solution to prevent people from right clicking on his photos (that he wanted to sell prints of) on his website and clicking save image. He was horrified to learn what the Print Screen button on his keyboard did.
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoHaha, indeed. Blocking right click is so silly. It doesn’t really prevent a sufficiently motivated user, it’s just annoying. Although if you’re talking about printing photos, you would need a very high resolution monitor to capture a decent quality photo using the print screen function. Doesn’t seem viable to use print screen in order to save a photo you intend to print, especially in the 90s when screens were rarely better than 1024x768. Obviously there are better ways to save the high-quality original images, but I’m not sure I would really worry about print screen.
- 20after4 6y agoYou'd be surprised how little people care about low resolution photos. Most people would rather print a crappy screen capture of an image than pay for a high quality print.
- Shared404 6y agoI would say it's actively harmful. If I accidentally notice that it's happening, I'm going to start actively downloading things indiscriminately. Or maybe I'm just annoying.
- acheron 6y agoReminds me of the classic Daily WTF "wooden table" web design: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/web_0_0x2e_1 http://thedailywtf.com/articles/web_0_0x2e_1
- saagarjha 6y agoThey could possibly store such information using DeviceCheck, but yeah, bypassing their restrictions is fairly trivial in the real world if you put just a bit of effort into it…
- Spivak 6y agoSnapchat is aggressive in preventing people from reverse engineering it as a spam prevention measure. If you make it really really hard to automate its use the spammers will move on to other targets.
- rvz 6y agoExactly. That's why the presence of bots on Snapchat is close to zero and the accounts are almost certainly created by real users, unlike other platforms. However, the daily active users on Snap is a more interesting metric than the total number of users signed up.
- asdff 6y agoCitation needed. Bots add me every week, it's no different than what you find on instagram.
- Nextgrid 6y agoEven if we assume these are "manual" bots from click farms, it still doesn't fulfill Snapchat's objective. Users hate spam, not bots per-se. Snapchat should be focusing on fighting spam, through a karma system, rate limits, etc instead of purely focusing on bots and preventing good bots (or users that appear to be bots, with alternative clients, etc) from existing.