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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
- garyhasapoint 2mo agohas this guy lived on a rock? reddit/twitter/etc every social media platform does this already.
- wolvoleo 2mo agoIt's pretty likely that bluesky users aren't on other social media. Because it pretends to be better than them (this shows it isn't really, though)
- pfraze 2mo agoI know you don't think it's bluesky, but which app do you think is better at putting its logo on screenshots?
- yesyoudo 2mo ago[flagged]
- mozzius 2mo agothe difference is those apps aren’t open source so you can’t go explore how they work
- 0xferruccio 2mo agoTo be fair this is useful for discovering bluesky from screenshots getting posted on other platforms. Their product UI kind of looks like X, so it's helpful to know the source of a post
- grim_io 2mo agoI don't think anyone doubts that it benefits the company.
- mulmen 2mo agoIf only there was some uniform way to identify a resource. But it might lead people out of the walled garden so best not to risk it.
- pastel8739 2mo agoOr, in the case of X, into the outside of the wall of the garden with no way through
- Razengan 2mo agoAs Spring inevitably leads to Winter, and Night follows Day, Thus the Inevitable Enshittification of all Centralized Platforms
- winningChild 2mo ago[dead]
- skiing_crawling 2mo agoThis is phone OS developer's fault for even allowing it. When I take a screenshot, I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time. Its not a picture of your app, its a picture of my screen. Some banking apps used to (or still) prevent this and now some apps get a hook to insert their branding. My device serves some master other than myself.
- spike021 2mo agoiOS allows something similar. twitter (X) will also add a logo. I believe reddit did the same but i stopped using their app a while ago.
- Chinjut 2mo agoiOS allows something similar because this is iOS. iOS allows something exactly the same because this article is about iOS.
- mh- 2mo agoReddit has a toggle in its settings to disable it. X, too, I think. Personally, I wish iOS didn't even facilitate this. edit: to be clear, I don't think iOS should notify the app at all. The app could register areas as "invisible to screenshots" perhaps - I'm torn on that functionality.
- voidUpdate 2mo agoThat's what bluesky is doing in this case. It is showing the button on an area that is "invisible to screenshots", and the butterfly is behind it, so it shows through when a screenshot is taken
- KennyBlanken 2mo agoThe thing that really irritates me about the banking apps blocking screenshots is that it's pretty clear to me it's not about protecting customers but denying customers the ability to document something related to their account.
- adolph 2mo agoExample n+1 of why I only use web and not download an app
- ctdinjeu9 2mo ago[flagged]
- wraptile 2mo agoThis is why pocket computers are still so unserious. My programs should not be aware let alone respond to my administrative actions like screenshots.
- voidUpdate 2mo agoThey don't respond to it. It simply says "this button is part of sensitive content", and the OS itself hides the sensitive content, revealing the image below it
- Laurel1234 2mo ago[dead]
- RugnirViking 2mo agohave you never encountered the plague of apps saying "don't screenshot, our content looks so much better when you share it, see:" and then displaying a picture of the stupidest looking thing youve ever seen in your life as though you would ever consider showing that to your friends instead of the most personal thing - literally showing them what youre seeing with your own eyes
- voidUpdate 2mo agoNo, and that's not what bluesky is doing
- 8-prime 2mo agoNot only 'pocket computers' are an issue. I was thoroughly shocked when I found out that websites can detect that the dev-tools are open. That is something that a website should never be able to know, yet here we are.
- backwardsponcho 2mo agoI ran into a government site that not only was aware of the devtools being open, but also stopped virtually all user actions if it did. And it worked quite well- to bypass it, I had to block the detection script from loading altogether since merely removing the event listener didn't work.
- pfraze 2mo agoThis is in fact a watermark to promote the application, which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. I didn't know that Sam literally named the file GrowthHack.tsx, which is pretty funny.
- red_hare 2mo agoI can't help but respect the dev's self-awareness
- yjftsjthsd-h 2mo ago> which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. The text at the top of the screenshot is > Eric Roston > @eroston.bsky.social So it's pretty easy to tell IMHO.
- radicalriddler 2mo agowhat happens when it’s a custom handle like @example.com?
- yjftsjthsd-h 2mo agoHonestly I didn't know that was a possibility. In that case yes, it's probably harder in when that's in play.
- dbbk 2mo agoI mean, X does the exact same thing
- inigyou 2mo agoIn X's case, the advertising is just the close button.
- 3form 2mo agoWell, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help. It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes away at some point.
- xnx 2mo agoThere should be a layer of user control where the user can make the OS lie to the app. The app has no need to know when a screenshot or recording is happening, what the real location is, what file system contents are, etc.
- bigyabai 2mo ago> I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes away at some point. You don't have to wish, in this scenario. Bluesky supports third-party clients, you can use one that has a more minimal featureset if you prefer.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoFor Bluesky, sure. I think the comment was aimed at the trend. Android and iOS should not let apps do this, because it can be (ab)used by apps that you can’t really choose not to use. I know there’s a popular bank in my country that completely blocks screenshots and screen recordings on Android somehow.
- ebbi 2mo agoX does the same thing.
- Jonovono 2mo agoJust since Nikita joined (altho now he's gone, doubt they will remove it tho)
- _djo_ 2mo agoX and Threads do this too. I wish they all wouldn't, messing with screenshots should only ever be done when preventing them as a security measure.
- FinnKuhn 2mo agoReddit as well. Although they let you disable it from what I remember.
- wolvoleo 2mo agoEven preventing them shouldn't be possible. It's just security theater anyway. You can easily capture it with another camera.
- kps 2mo agoUntil the big players agree on a watermark that their cameras will refuse to photograph.
- dvngnt_ 2mo agoThey shouldn't even disallow screenshots from a security measure. If the user wants to take a screenshot of their bank account info or a password manager they should. Maybe an additional permission for screenshare. No device has protection against a second device taking a recording so it's really just security theater
- spaqin 2mo agoIt's all "security" and all until your banking app has a bug that breaks exporting bank statements and the only way to get it out is to take screenshots - which are blocked as well. Oh, and you need to submit it by today. At least on rooted Android devices you can bypass that.
- winterqt 2mo agoThis is arguably missing the "how" from the title -- can someone fix?
- CaliforniaKarl 2mo agoThe best way to ask for this is to send an email, to the email address which you can find at the bottom of the page (click on "Contact"). There's no guarantee that the mods will find your comment otherwise.
- FinnKuhn 2mo ago@Dang: I would like to report an innocent victim to the automatic "How"-Removal.
- altairprime 2mo agoSaying @dang has no effect; it does not activate a batsignal or any other mechanism of mod summoning. The only way to be sure a mod see this is to email them; see the contact link in the footer and include a link to the comment.
- bewal416 2mo agoI think RevenueCat does the same thing. Smart way to exploit network effects!
- hmokiguess 2mo agoThis sort of stuff to me is an example of fear within an organization. Whenever I see engineering resources allocated towards self promotion and branding rather than quality and features for its users it shows how leaders want control over narratives.
- haileyok 2mo agoSomeone spending half a day on a feature that places the app's logo in the screenshot so people seeing it can know where it came from is "fear within an organization"? You've got to be kidding lol
- skupig 2mo agoIt's equally possible there was one engineer with some free time who thought it would be cool.
- hmokiguess 2mo agoAnd such engineer would have enough organizational clout to just ship it without going through anyone?
- x313 2mo agoBluesky has <100 employees so it could be possible
- hmokiguess 2mo agoI agree that having less people to manage means easier to build trust relationships and culture, though I believe some form of management and control must exist.
- pfraze 2mo agoI'm sure this wasn't even in the top 10 of things that we made sam implement out of fear
- deleted 2mo ago[deleted]
- internetter 2mo agoNobody in the comments talking about snapchat where like one of the core pillars of what "sets their service apart" is the difficulty of taking a screenshot without notifying the other party
- Mtinie 2mo agoWasn’t that the entire premise of the product when it launched? Disappearing messages and minimal footprint so you could be confident your communications were semi-private? That was the expectation of using the product so it fits and isn’t anything like this discussion.
- BasicallyBluesk 2mo agoThat plus product design. Yellow. They fuckin did it. Not construction not a warning of some type. Not yellow pages. Yellow - cool looking yellow. Is what I said to myself as a 20-something product designer
- ryukoposting 2mo agoTheir entire color story was really cool at the time. Yellow with Magenta/Blue accents was super bold, especially compared to the boring ass direction everything was going. Material and Windows 10 flatshit was all the rage and here comes Snapchat like the Kool-Aid man.
- TeMPOraL 2mo agoYes. And because of the platforms deciding to enable that business model, we're now in a bullshit reality where the very apps that need to be screenshotted most often, are first to abuse platform features and prevent screenshots from being taken. This deserves a longer rant, but the very premise of Snapchat was always poisonous, and is largely responsible for why, 20 years later, we're now facing extreme proposals for regulating electronic communication. I generally disagree with the whole line of criticism techies get for "solving social problems with technology", but if there's one unambiguous case where I'd agree it was plain stupid, it's the concept of screenshot prevention, that became prominent with Snapchat. Controlling whether your recipient gets to keep the message you sent them is a purely social problem, and the answer to that in the real world has always, for good reasons, been "once sent, it's no longer yours; once received, it belongs to recipient to do with as they please".
- lukeholder 2mo agoTiktok has been watermarking videos since the beginning.
- add-sub-mul-div 2mo agoIs this iPhone only? I've never seen this on Android.
- omoikane 2mo agoIt's iOS only, relying on iOS to exclude isSecureTextEntry things from screenshots: https://github.com/mozzius/expo-privacy-sensitive/blob/main/README.md#platform-support https://github.com/mozzius/expo-privacy-sensitive/blob/main/...
- jjcm 2mo agoIf it's between this and a perpetual logo, I'll take this any day. I actually really like this approach. The action button isn't relevant in this context, and it doesn't occlude the content. There's certainly situations where you wouldn't want this (ie if you're developing the app and you want to redesign starting from a screenshot), but for the average user I think this isn't overly hostile. I understand that people are dogmatically opposed to intent being modified, but I think you need to balance nuance. I actually enjoy having an attributable source in shared elements, and I think this is a low-impact way of achieving that.
- pembrook 2mo ago[flagged]
- computably 2mo agoUh, no? I highly doubt that a non-occluding watermark on screenshots is even in the top 100 gripes most people have with X. And I don't use either platform. If anything your argument is an accusation of bias without any discussion of merits.
- Petersipoi 2mo agoNot sure why you think anyone is suggesting that non-occluding watermarks are a gripe people have with X. GP is saying that BS gets a pass where X would not for a user hostile action.
- irishcoffee 2mo agoYeah, the dead comment really cements the bias of hn despite what people claim. I don’t use either platform, I have no interest in the debate. As an outsider looking in, the bias has been proven. Not that it matters much, I am left-of-center generally speaking.
- saghm 2mo ago
- kimos 2mo agoPerplexity does this on web by adding a logo in response to key combos for normal screenshot shortcuts.
- shepherdjerred 2mo agoThis is a pretty cool, harmless hack honestly. I don’t see how you could be mad at it.
- expedited123 2mo agoIt feels restrictive, especially since it’s part of a broader pattern of limiting user freedom on platforms. For instance, on PC you can't simply right click on a video and save it on bluesky. They add some frontend bullshit to prevent you from doing that. On "new" Reddit I remember when you saved an image it would always have a watermark on it. On PC, you can't preview the raw image/video either. On Instagram you can't save images at all easily. Cant view content without being logged in, etc.. Now contrast this with platforms like Mastodon where I can do whatever I want with the uploaded media there and there are barely any such restrictions.
- demux 2mo agoThe data is publicly stored on [publicly accessible servers](https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/core-architecture/pds https://atproto.wiki/en/wiki/reference/core-architecture/pds) so you can indeed do whatever you want with the uploaded media on BlueSky as well. Not to mention that if you care enough about this issue, there are numerous alternate clients to access BlueSky.
- zzo38computer 2mo agoIf the feature can sometimes be useful (including this situation, which some other comments mentioned; but also for other things such as hiding actual secure data), then perhaps it should be made as a setting which can be changed in the setting menu (e.g. "Exclude secure data from screenshots"; it should also mention which apps use this feature), so prevent abuse. (This would also make it clear what the feature is, as well as being able to disable it.)
- akersten 2mo agoThat such a setting does not exist suggests the feature's true purpose is not for the end user's own benefit!
- whalesalad 2mo agoI’ve noticed that if you screenshot a thread in the threads app an “@threads” logo appears in the upper right corner
- ivan888 2mo ago> The “Follow” button is visible when I take the screenshot mid-switch. Does this indicate that the privacy feature has a gap, where you could reveal the length of your password if you take a screenshot mid app switch?
- tom1337 2mo agoNo because per default the input is not cleared when screenshotting. If you‘d implement this yourself for security reasons you'd most likely blur / overlay the whole screen when the app enters background state.
- OJFord 2mo agoProbably, but to the extent that was at all a problem to begin with, multiply it by another 0.0001 or whatever for the threat of the screenshot being taken mid switch away!
- deleted 2mo ago[deleted]
- jadengeller 2mo agoTangentially, I see a lot of people here upset that apps can react to your screenshot before it is captured. I think it is helpful to think about it as a tradeoff between freedoms: (a) the freedom to screenshot any content on your own device (b) the freedom to share content with others that cannot be screenshotted It can be annoying when DRM or privacy features block a screenshot, but I think it can also benefit the platform ecosystem that you participate in as a user too. Idk!
- Dylan16807 2mo agoB is an illusion, and it seems like about 90% of the time it's used for dumb or bad purposes even if it did work.
- nxc18 2mo agoLocks can be picked. We still make and use locks.
- Dylan16807 2mo agoIf a type of lock was overwhelmingly used for bad reasons, and only worked when someone didn't cover their hands (analog pictures), I'd be arguing against that type of lock too.
- nxc18 2mo agoIs it a “bad reason”? Millions of people chose to use Snapchat specifically because of how it handles screenshots. It is a feature even if you don’t like it. Many people would find it inconvenient to find another device to take a picture with. And that manual picture would then have baked-in evidence that it was taken surreptitiously. Locks keep honest people honest, as long as the app is up front about it and lets users make the choice, I don’t mind.
- Dylan16807 2mo ago
- BasicallyBluesk 2mo ago[flagged]
- pfraze 2mo agoWe really need better haters
- yesyoudo 2mo agoReally, can’t find any on a network as vast and populated as Bluesky?? Where anyone can say anything? Maybe it’s so decentralized there is a dark web within BlueSky now! DarkSky
- yesyoudo 2mo agoFirehose -> Shadowhose Now anyone can access the decentralized shadowhose from our server
- whyrusleeping 2mo ago“ and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.”
- yesyoudo 2mo agoI’m not mad, Paul frazee is fucking MADD Mothers Against Decentralized Development He’s a madd mother, fucker
- phillipseamore 2mo agoIf not for the function being named "GrowthHack" I would have thought that hiding following status for screenshots to be a good privacy measure. They don't use it to hide anything else and since I'm not a user of the app I don't know if there is more extraneous information that could be used to infer or track down who screenshotted and they don't hide.
- pranav_tech26 2mo ago[flagged]
- vachina 2mo agoThis is why I use the browser version for anything. I’m using an actual user agent.
- HelloUsername 2mo agoI was wondering about this as well; did they only test with the official iOS app? Or also through a mobile webbrowser?
- godelski 2mo agoI'm confused why people are mad at Bluesky for this. Everyone stating their issues seems more related to Apple than Bluesky. So why point the finger at them?
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- KeybordWarrior6 2mo ago[flagged]
- serial_dev 2mo agoI don’t think a significant percent of real Bluesky users actually care. Having a follow button on the screenshot brings nothing and a logo is helpful when sharing (“hey it’s not twitter, I know it looks like it but it’s bluesky”) and looks subtle. It’s just it’s a forum so people say things for discussions sake and get outraged by anything that a platform they don’t like is doing.
- whitenoise7 2mo ago> a significant percent of Bluesky users 42 of their 56 active users might not care about a watermark but god dammit do they respect it And so should you
- saagarjha 2mo agoBluesky didn't have to use this API for this purpose.
- klutometis 2mo agoUsually post http://aidr.wtf http://aidr.wtf appropriately.
- yesyoudo 2mo ago[flagged]
- Titan2189 2mo agoI appreciate the Game Changer reference
- jheriko 2mo ago[dead]
- asdfsa32 2mo agoThis is an interesting case of "Good use" of a "bad feature". This feature is bad because it works against the user and device owner, but this use case like hiding your password when sharing your screen is a good use case.
- socalgal2 2mo agoThey're just following Apple's lead. When iPhone shipped, any time you emailed a photo it would append "Sent from my iPhone" to try to virally market. Same or at least similar slimey tactics
- doublepg23 2mo agoThere was at least a fig leaf of “I’m typing on a mobile keyboard” excuse my typos”.
- rmwaite 2mo agoThat’s just an email signature, configurable (or removable, if you prefer) by the user. This is completely different, in my opinion.
- rmwaite 2mo agoOn iOS, if you swipe control center down and then back up but don’t lift your finger, the screenshot will not have the logo. I do this with Twitter so my screenshots don’t have the X logo.
- red369 2mo agoInteresting that this works. I know I have been frustrated recently when trying to take a screenshot of a bank transfer or something similar, but I couldn't find which app that was to test again. I tested on the iOS Passwords app, and I couldn't get the trick to work in that. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong, or it only works in specific apps. Each time I tried to take a screenshot of a password, the password was missing from the screenshot - even when I kept the control centre pulled down far enough that the Password app was starting to look blurry.
- djhn 2mo agoI also tested this and couldn’t get the pull down method to work: Spotify still shows its annoying post-screenshot menu.
- wmichelin 2mo agoI know of social media sites who have kept an untracked version of the link in the dom of the A tag, but replace it with their in-house link tracker copy of it as you're clicking, that way the destination looks correct when you hover over the link.
- tgv 2mo agoA simple call to get a list of sensitive screen areas would suffice. Add a bunch of options to make everybody happy, but don't allow replacement with different content.
- thomasnowhere 2mo ago[dead]
- Jaxkr 2mo agoThis trick was almost certainly invented by Nikita Bier when he joined X.
- user00005 2mo agoIs this the relevant issue for Graphene OS? https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/664 https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/664 Upvote the issue if so.
- violetthreads 2mo agoShill News
- DavidD 2mo agoDoes anyone know a way to do this for a computer? I built a p2ppoker website the protects the shuffle from the server but I would like to blank the cards on screenshots to prevent huds and AIs from making the game unplayable.
- PrimeAli 2mo ago[flagged]
- pranav_tech26 2mo ago[flagged]
- KeybordWarrior6 2mo ago[flagged]
- shevy-java 2mo agoCompanies always want to slop-spam their logos onto everything. It is a very annoying habit. On youtube videos this is even more annoying; several use floating logos.
- globular-toast 2mo ago> Thankfully, I remembered that Bluesky app is open source (or at least the code is available to look at). What does the author mean by this? I checked the repo and the project seems to be MIT licensed, which makes it open source.
- ErigmolCt 2mo agoOnce apps can present one thing to the user and another thing to the captured image, there are some pretty weird possibilities
- bio_hacker 2mo agoLike adding some nice fingerprinting. I really feel my devices work against me. Nothing works for me.
- radicalriddler 2mo agoLinkedIn’s job screen in the app is a good example of this different presentation. I’ve noticed a certain AI recruitment company gets “highlighted” (darkened white background of the screen, but their logo is pure white and REALLY stands out), but when I screenshot it, it reverts to normal, like there’s no blatant special advertising.
- CGamesPlay 2mo agoDifferent underlying mechanism. The LinkedIn one (and almost all ads on Instagram/Facebook these days) use a gain map to increase the brightness of the image. Here's a site demoing the tasteful application of this [0], you can see the difference viewing it live versus taking a screenshot of the result. [0]: https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-gain-map-gallery/ https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-gain-map-gallery/
- radicalriddler 2mo agoAhhh gotcha, thanks for the info
- jocelyner 2mo ago[dead]
- bouncycastle 2mo agoDear app developers: please do not detect screenshots, and do not change behavior. It is my phone and I should have the right to save anything on my screen for my own purposes and you should not know that I do that.
- wraptile 2mo agoThis complaint should be aimed at operating system developers who should have never allow such infringement to begin with.
- motbus3 2mo agoUnfortunately way more applications inject some sort of info into the image using noise of alpha channels when you take a screenshot... Ofc you shouldn't be doing anything wrong, but let's say you join a court and provide some evidence in confidence, you can be found if that evidence is shared with both lawyers
- p0w3n3d 2mo agoFirst - it's great that people can't take screenshots of their sensitive data by accident Second - I hate when my device keeps me from anything. I'm used to have control over my computer, and this is outrageous that I can't take screenshots of anything I want. There should be a god mode or something like that.
- madhu_ghalame 2mo ago[dead]
- thn-gap 2mo agoI only ever used bluesky/twitter via web app on my phone, and stuff like this affirms that it's the right decision.
- TeMPOraL 2mo agoReading between the lines: Oh, so you can take screenshots of the content that tries to avoid it if you do it mid-switch? If it's reliable and WONTFIX, that's almost enough to get me to switch away from Android. Screenshot taking prevention is harmful and should not have ever been allowed to become a platform-level feature in the first place. Because if there's one rule of platform/client interaction, is that if you add a feature that can be abused against customers for stupid reasons, it will be. There's a number of apps I have on my Android phone that block screenshots for dubious reasons, that can be maaaybe charitably explained by calling them "growth hacking pretending to be a security feature", but in some cases even that's a stretch. This feature should never have existed in the first place. (At least Bluesky is open about it, both by being Open Source and calling out the "growth hack" by name in source code.)
- ahoka 2mo agoThis technique would be devious if applied to a QR code.
- mrdoe 2mo ago[flagged]
- zyvop1 2mo agoI use bluesky for cross posting my blogs
- YesThatTom2 2mo agoCan they do something similar so that caps include the full date/time? I hate when caps are perpetually “1 hour ago”.
- fiatpandas 2mo agoGreat idea.
- chewbacha 2mo agoActually, I’m a little worried by what this post demonstrates but not the logo or the use of the api. I’m worried that switching apps and screenshots _doesn’t_ put the logo in. If the point of the switch is privacy, isn’t that a bug? Shouldn’t it apply the privacy screen during any screenshot? What if there was sensitive information on there when you were switching and taking the screenshot?
- amelius 2mo agoAnother reminder that you don't own your phone.
- jamatharArshad 2mo agohttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-P92-yDZ9zqwuXjWjqA4JGyKGqON3d_/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-P92-yDZ9zqwuXjWjqA4JGyKGq... .ai features premium comment for funny videos sharing subscribe like remix camera filter
- c7b 2mo agoIf you're mad at Bluesky for doing this, I think you're mad at the wrong party. Modifying intent is problematic and can be abused (although I think there's nothing particularly problematic about this particular instance). The real problem is that you have next to no possibility of modifying the behavior. On an OS that respects user freedom, there would by a myriad ways of intercepting what the software is doing to get your desired result. On iOS, you're at the mercy of Apple. I think we should be mad at Apple for normalizing a computing culture that views user freedom as a security risk, potentially something that should be outlawed (thinking of age verification).
- jamatharArshad 2mo agohttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-P92-yDZ9zqwuXjWjqA4JGyKGqON3d_/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y-P92-yDZ9zqwuXjWjqA4JGyKGq...
- hn2crljhhy 2mo ago[dead]
- bansiwebix 2mo agoAlso Read : https://sites.google.com/view/8-best-iptv-2026/ https://sites.google.com/view/8-best-iptv-2026/
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- hk1337 2mo agoThe overall sentiment is that everyone is okay with Bluesky adding a watermark while a few days ago they were up in arms about Claude adding a watermark? It seems more appropriate for Claude to do it seeing as it generated the image, all Bluesky did is provide the platform to post it.
- 47282847 2mo agoI am not a Bluesky user, but it looks like it actually serves a privacy-preserving purpose here - whether the person is following the account or not. Were it not for the name of the module, I wouldn’t see any nefarious action here. That said, operating systems should turn this into a user choice, and present a dialog to select the “protected” version or not.
- Healer_0 2mo ago[flagged]
- The-Bus 2mo agoUber is another example of an app that is actively hostile when I want to take a screenshot. Let's say I'm calling a call for someone and want them to know what car it is, driver's info, etc. Uber doesn't let me do that, I have to "share" the result with someone. The workaround is letting that person take a photo of my phone, which is lower quality.
- Insanity 2mo agoThat's smart, I quite like that approach. And it's a subtle enough logo that it wouldn't bother me on screenshots either.
- hod6654 2mo agoSomewhat related: is there any way to bypass screenshot blocking in Android without root? Used to be able to do it with Scrcpy, but that doesn't work anymore...