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the funniest thing is that you can still simply enable airplane mode, screenshot, and delete the app this doesn't really do jack

by quenix 6y ago

vorpalhex 6y ago
Or 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    Haha, 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 ago
      You'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 ago
      I 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 ago
  Reminds 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 ago
They 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…

the funniest thing is that you can still simply enable airplane mode, screenshot, and delete the app this doesn't really do jack

by quenix 6y ago

the funniest thing is that you can still simply enable airplane mode, screenshot, and delete the app this doesn't really do jack

vorpalhex 6y ago

Or 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 ago
I 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 ago
  Haha, 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 ago
    You'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 ago
    I 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 ago
Reminds 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 ago

They 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…