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How is Instagram on web going to prevent screen shots?
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New tools will include preventing the ability to screenshot images and videos sent in Instagram messages with its "view once" or "allow replay" mechanisms - which can be selected by users when sending an image or video in Direct Messages. This will also apply to the web version of Instagram.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd4vn6p601o
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- uberman 2y agoI do t know the state of the art, but years ago there was a technique that prevented screenshot of video. The result was always just a blue background as if the video was being rendered on to a green screen and windows could not tell. I dont know what the state of the art is now, but given that I can probably take a photo with my phone if I really needed it seems like wasted energy
- infotainment 2y agoMy guess: they’ll simply block accessing “view once” DMs via the web client, thereby technically enforcing their promise to “prevent screenshots”. There already are other types of DMs that cannot be viewed on web, so there’s already precedent.
- chrisjj 2y agoI hope they do not find a way. Because I fear the banks that currently block screenshots on their phone apps (being every UK bank I use) would employ it to do the same on their websites.
- chrisjj 2y agoE.g. to extend the app's bar on me taking a record of pending transactions.