Does anyone else feel infuriated that apps can restrict screenshots from occurring? I can use an external camera if I really wanted to save a copy of a communication, or use a personal computer with no such limitations.
Why would android even allow such restrictions to be enabled in the first place?
Mobile phones have been able to bring computation to the masses, including poor countries. PCs were a luxury item even in the Western World.
Accessibility and standardization have been the driver of this change, not customization.
After all, mobile phones are now sort of a mass product like TVs back then. No one really "owned" a TV either.
You can call these masses ignorant, but I think most just want to live a good life with a handy tool that works.
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That word is blackli^Wblocklisted in Google developer documentation style guide.
20-25 years ago, "you" (whoever was able to run software, as well as whoever had momentary physical access) got to really control the expensive device "you" (the buyer) bought. That wasn't so great for the buyer, and it would have been even worse now. That naïve security model would not do well against today's sophisticated threats.
IMO, the android/iphone state is a clear improvement, and we're not going to get another improvement until the people who dislike the current state stop confusing "you" and "you". Only then will we get enough clear thinking on the subject to work out another improvement.
To enforce DRM in streaming apps, mostly; though other apps have ended up bodging that for their own purposes.
I suppose at least in the context of secure messaging or banking apps (which also do this) it makes you think twice before snapping something, but even so I think there should be a variant of whatever API which lets the user override it / disable it globally.
Only genuine security concern I can think of that it addresses is that of screen recording malware / stalkerware (assuming said malware doesn't already have root access on your device to circumvent it...), and perhaps the risk of accidentally screenshotting/capturing something sensitive like bank details while screen sharing.
you can’t screen record or screenshot netflix or disney+
it doesn’t explicitly block it, but the screen just comes out black or stuck on a single frame
whether that’s a feature or an exploit, I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem too unreasonable
To be fair, this would require the MP to have a second mobile phone. [looks at title of article] Oh. ;P