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Twitter Can Detect Screenshots

13 points by CHB0403085482 4y ago

josephcsible 4y ago
Operating systems shouldn't let apps detect screenshots without the user's permission. (And they shouldn't let apps distinguish between not being granted this permission and the user just never taking any screenshots.)
- dzhiurgis 4y ago
  How about certification apps - ones that present questions from a rather small pool. They are incredibly well protected in software, but simple to copy using hardware (or hidden camera)
- pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
  Better yet: there shouldn't be any capability to detect screenshots.
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    That's a bad path to go down. Any program should be able to do anything on a device if the owner of the device authorizes it.
  - panzerboiler 4y ago
    Do you want the operating system to prevent an app to read/manipulate the pixels of a raster image submitted to it? No, thanks. I would avoid instead any app that forces me into doing something that I don't want to do. Detecting screenshots is just one of the many abusive behaviours that most users accept when they register to those services. The same technology that they abuse enables a lot of useful things. Blame the services, not the tech.
    - stavros 4y ago
      Agreed, I don't see why I need to live with an abusive app and try to restrict is capability to abuse me. Instead, I should vote with my feet and leave.
aaron695 4y ago
Snapchat and Instagram (currently only disappearing ) tell the other person if you screenshot - https://www.alphr.com/sent-received-delivered-meaning-snapchat/ https://www.alphr.com/sent-received-delivered-meaning-snapch... I don't know apps could do this.
BiteCode_dev 4y ago
The fact apps can prevent you from taking screenshots on mobile is one of biggest symptoms of everything that is wrong with this closed ecosystem. Second position being that you have the concept of 'rooting' a phone to get it in the state you have your regular computer in. Of course, with MS pushing more and more restrictive booting conditions for windows and DRM getting in everything, even FOSS, this is only going to get worse.
- savolai 4y ago
  In my experience on iOS actually preventing taking the screenshot doesn’t happen though. The app just gets to know it happened and can notify the user of options. Many apps do this, including jodel. Sure, it’s annoying, especially if you want to take multiple screenshots in a row. Recording video of apps sometimes is blocked though. It would be lovely to get vector screenshots someday. That contain the static UI state of a given moment with as much semantics as possible.
bambax 4y ago
> That's why some users are seeing a "Share Tweet?" pop-up whenever the Twitter app notices them taking a screenshot. Don't use the app. Problem solved.
zydex 4y ago
Hasn’t screenshot detection been a key feature of Snapchat for many years, possibly even since inception?

13 points by CHB0403085482 4y ago

Operating systems shouldn't let apps detect screenshots without the user's permission. (And they shouldn't let apps distinguish between not being granted this permission and the user just never taking any screenshots.)

dzhiurgis 4y ago
How about certification apps - ones that present questions from a rather small pool. They are incredibly well protected in software, but simple to copy using hardware (or hidden camera)
pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
Better yet: there shouldn't be any capability to detect screenshots.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  That's a bad path to go down. Any program should be able to do anything on a device if the owner of the device authorizes it.
- panzerboiler 4y ago
  Do you want the operating system to prevent an app to read/manipulate the pixels of a raster image submitted to it? No, thanks. I would avoid instead any app that forces me into doing something that I don't want to do. Detecting screenshots is just one of the many abusive behaviours that most users accept when they register to those services. The same technology that they abuse enables a lot of useful things. Blame the services, not the tech.
  - stavros 4y ago
    Agreed, I don't see why I need to live with an abusive app and try to restrict is capability to abuse me. Instead, I should vote with my feet and leave.

aaron695 4y ago

Snapchat and Instagram (currently only disappearing ) tell the other person if you screenshot - https://www.alphr.com/sent-received-delivered-meaning-snapchat/ https://www.alphr.com/sent-received-delivered-meaning-snapch... I don't know apps could do this.

BiteCode_dev 4y ago

The fact apps can prevent you from taking screenshots on mobile is one of biggest symptoms of everything that is wrong with this closed ecosystem. Second position being that you have the concept of 'rooting' a phone to get it in the state you have your regular computer in. Of course, with MS pushing more and more restrictive booting conditions for windows and DRM getting in everything, even FOSS, this is only going to get worse.

savolai 4y ago
In my experience on iOS actually preventing taking the screenshot doesn’t happen though. The app just gets to know it happened and can notify the user of options. Many apps do this, including jodel. Sure, it’s annoying, especially if you want to take multiple screenshots in a row. Recording video of apps sometimes is blocked though. It would be lovely to get vector screenshots someday. That contain the static UI state of a given moment with as much semantics as possible.

bambax 4y ago

> That's why some users are seeing a "Share Tweet?" pop-up whenever the Twitter app notices them taking a screenshot. Don't use the app. Problem solved.

zydex 4y ago

Hasn’t screenshot detection been a key feature of Snapchat for many years, possibly even since inception?