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Google's play store requires screen grabs of payment screens when submitting. They recommend you photograph the phone with a separate device...
by jimlikeslimes 6y ago
Google's play store requires screen grabs of payment screens when submitting. They recommend you photograph the phone with a separate device...
- BlueTemplar 6y ago:facepalm:
- vagrantJin 6y agoAll those highly paid, highly educated people really and truly believe this to be a solution?
- exikyut 6y agoYes. Taking a photo with a separate device is reasonable evidence you're not breaking secure boot et al. If I understand correctly.
- warent 6y agothat can't be true because nothing would stop them from taking a screencap and then photoshopping it over a different picture
- yencabulator 6y agoOr just displaying whatever graphic they want full screen on a phone and taking a photo of that.
- yholio 6y agoIt's as if the last 30 years of technical evolution never happened and we are back at faxing signed forms and for extra security and applying triple rot-13 to guarantee no unauthorized access.
- darepublic 6y agoYeah the big tech companies want to destroy the ecosystem of opportunity they benefited from, in order to protect their power. If it means a world with more needless bullshit for everyone, so be it
- sbarre 6y agoThey absolutely do not, but this is the bullshit they choose to hide behind.
- jimlikeslimes 6y agoSorry, it was the Google Pay verification not play store. I did it a few weeks ago, might have misread it but pretty sure that's what they wanted.
- stainforth 6y agoI believe there are even actual Google employees that read these forums. And barring them, I believe there are even tech executives responsible for these policies that read this forum.
- distances 6y agoMaybe you could run the app in an emulator and take screenshots on the host computer?
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- zrobotics 6y agoSadly reminds me of the very early days of online video, where speed runners would video their televisions because screen capture devices were terribly expensive. What's old is new again?
- reaperducer 6y agoWhat's old is new again? I'm not so sure. Back in my Windows days (95? 98, maybe?) if I played a DVD on my computer, the window that the video was playing in would be black if I took a screenshot.
- toast0 6y agoA lot of early computer DVD playing was using hardware accelerated decode, with the resulting images bypassing the framebuffer. That means it won't show up on your screenshots, but it wasn't necessarily detecting a a screenshot and blanking the output (although, once software decoding was feasible, that may also have happened).
- eznzt 6y agoI remember this. I also remember the colour of the video window was something like 030303 and if you had that colour on any other window (including your wallpaper) you would see the video there as well.