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I want to take a screen shot of the transaction I just did. Can't because some ahole decided for me that it's too sensitive information and blacks out the whole

I want to take a screen shot of the transaction I just did. Can't because some ahole decided for me that it's too sensitive information and blacks out the whole screen. this API is stupid without control in settings of the os

smelendez 2mo ago
Yeah, I would rather see a warning in that case that the screenshot could contain sensitive information, with options to take a redacted screenshot or a normal one.
- subjectleft 2mo ago
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j16sdiz 2mo ago
Lots of people here exposing their single sign on approve code because a scammer ask them to send them a screenshot.
- jrockway 2mo ago
  I mean... "please read me the code you get via text" or "this really Bank of America, please type your OTP" seems to work well enough. We really don't need OS-level controls for stuff on the screen. People can just tell you what's on the screen.
- squigz 2mo ago
  So that means this change will result in a noticeable decline in such scams, right? Right??
  - SkyBelow 2mo ago
    Potentially worse than nothing, it allows for someone to claim they have a fix even if the fix does nothing to stop someone from becoming a victim, thus allowing for even stronger victim blaming.
- CrimsonRain 2mo ago
  the solution to that is letting those people get scammed.
monegator 2mo ago
you don't have a share button tha generates a PDF and shares it with whomever?
- TeMPOraL 2mo ago
  Often, you don't, because the same developers of the bank app decided it's an unnecessary power user feature that doesn't fit in the MVP or something. Or, even if they add it, there's no way to save the file, only to "share" it, which 99% of the times isn't what I want, and I'm frankly tired of routing through the mail app as a workaround. At this point, at least on Android side, there exist apps whose sole purpose is to be a share target and dump the information to file (and being apps on an app store, chances are top 10 are just thinly veiled malware).
  - monegator 2mo ago
    really? I'm not suprised by shitty developers developing shitty apps but i'm still baffled. Surely the bank would be getting tons of angry emails from customers if it happened in europe
    - TeMPOraL 2mo ago
      Would they care? They probably support proper export for business accounts. Business customers have leverage. Regular people? They're an annoying but necessary nuisance.
  - GlumWoodpecker 2mo ago
    Here's an open source solution on F-Droid, presumably malware-free: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mateusrodcosta.apps.share2storage/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mateusrodcosta.apps.share2s... https://github.com/MateusRodCosta/SaveLocally https://github.com/MateusRodCosta/SaveLocally
    - account42 2mo ago
      Yeah I wondered why anyone would ever install such a simple utility app from the app store. It's something that needs to be developed once and then only receive minimal maintenance which means the usual individual maintainer scratching his itch and sharing the result model works well but it also processes intentionally sensitive data meaning developers might be tempted to monetize that in some way. The curated open source distribution model of F-Droid is the perfect solution to this.
ralferoo 2mo ago
Yeah, I used to have this issue a lot. If I use my personal card for a business expense, I used to like to keep a screenshot of the transaction on the card as well as the invoice. As it's an app-only challenger bank, this is the only way short of exporting transactions as a PDF and that includes other transactions for the day. For a long time I used to use another phone to take a photo of my phone screen. Eventually, I just stopped bothering taking that photo because of the extra hassle, but it never stopped annoying me that I couldn't keep the records I wanted easily.

smelendez 2mo ago

Yeah, I would rather see a warning in that case that the screenshot could contain sensitive information, with options to take a redacted screenshot or a normal one.

subjectleft 2mo ago
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j16sdiz 2mo ago

Lots of people here exposing their single sign on approve code because a scammer ask them to send them a screenshot.

jrockway 2mo ago
I mean... "please read me the code you get via text" or "this really Bank of America, please type your OTP" seems to work well enough. We really don't need OS-level controls for stuff on the screen. People can just tell you what's on the screen.
squigz 2mo ago
So that means this change will result in a noticeable decline in such scams, right? Right??
- SkyBelow 2mo ago
  Potentially worse than nothing, it allows for someone to claim they have a fix even if the fix does nothing to stop someone from becoming a victim, thus allowing for even stronger victim blaming.
CrimsonRain 2mo ago
the solution to that is letting those people get scammed.

monegator 2mo ago

you don't have a share button tha generates a PDF and shares it with whomever?

TeMPOraL 2mo ago
Often, you don't, because the same developers of the bank app decided it's an unnecessary power user feature that doesn't fit in the MVP or something. Or, even if they add it, there's no way to save the file, only to "share" it, which 99% of the times isn't what I want, and I'm frankly tired of routing through the mail app as a workaround. At this point, at least on Android side, there exist apps whose sole purpose is to be a share target and dump the information to file (and being apps on an app store, chances are top 10 are just thinly veiled malware).
- monegator 2mo ago
  really? I'm not suprised by shitty developers developing shitty apps but i'm still baffled. Surely the bank would be getting tons of angry emails from customers if it happened in europe
  - TeMPOraL 2mo ago
    Would they care? They probably support proper export for business accounts. Business customers have leverage. Regular people? They're an annoying but necessary nuisance.
- GlumWoodpecker 2mo ago
  Here's an open source solution on F-Droid, presumably malware-free: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mateusrodcosta.apps.share2storage/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.mateusrodcosta.apps.share2s... https://github.com/MateusRodCosta/SaveLocally https://github.com/MateusRodCosta/SaveLocally
  - account42 2mo ago
    Yeah I wondered why anyone would ever install such a simple utility app from the app store. It's something that needs to be developed once and then only receive minimal maintenance which means the usual individual maintainer scratching his itch and sharing the result model works well but it also processes intentionally sensitive data meaning developers might be tempted to monetize that in some way. The curated open source distribution model of F-Droid is the perfect solution to this.

ralferoo 2mo ago

Yeah, I used to have this issue a lot. If I use my personal card for a business expense, I used to like to keep a screenshot of the transaction on the card as well as the invoice. As it's an app-only challenger bank, this is the only way short of exporting transactions as a PDF and that includes other transactions for the day. For a long time I used to use another phone to take a photo of my phone screen. Eventually, I just stopped bothering taking that photo because of the extra hassle, but it never stopped annoying me that I couldn't keep the records I wanted easily.