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  jjcm
  If 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.
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  skiing_crawling
  This 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.
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  3form
  Well, 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.
• wmichelin
  I 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.
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  pfraze
  This 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.
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  internetter
  Nobody 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
• rmwaite
  On 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.
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  _djo_
  X 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.
• asdfsa32
  This 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.
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  socalgal2
  They'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
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  godelski
  I'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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  0xferruccio
  To 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
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  hmokiguess
  This 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.
• phillipseamore
  If 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.
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  ivan888
  > 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?
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  zzo38computer
  If 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.)
• kimos
  Perplexity does this on web by adding a logo in response to key combos for normal screenshot shortcuts.
• klutometis
  Usually post http://aidr.wtf appropriately.
• anon
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• bewal416
  I think RevenueCat does the same thing. Smart way to exploit network effects!
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  jadengeller
  Tangentially, 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 screenshottedIt 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!
• Titan2189
  I appreciate the Game Changer reference
• vachina
  This is why I use the browser version for anything. I’m using an actual user agent.
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  ebbi
  X does the same thing.
• lukeholder
  Tiktok has been watermarking videos since the beginning.
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  add-sub-mul-div
  Is this iPhone only? I've never seen this on Android.
• whalesalad
  I’ve noticed that if you screenshot a thread in the threads app an “@threads” logo appears in the upper right corner
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  garyhasapoint
  has this guy lived on a rock? reddit/twitter/etc every social media platform does this already.
• Razengan
  As Spring inevitably leads to Winter, and Night follows Day, Thus the Inevitable Enshittification of all Centralized Platforms
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  winterqt
  This is arguably missing the "how" from the title -- can someone fix?
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  BasicallyBluesk
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• adolph
  Example n+1 of why I only use web and not download an app
• yesyoudo
  All the leading voices are on blue sky.Quick! Everyone!Over to blue sky where all the big stars in tech and VC and entertainment are feverishly sharing their thoughts and ambitions.Only on blue sky will you find:• knowhow• gossip• trends• “ads that add” (Paul frazee thought of this one, the kid is a genius. He coded his own decentralized network on the blockchain)Come on over to Blue Sky - all the stars are there. I mean here. On Bluesky where I am. Come on guys