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Apple prevents their users from taking screenshots of Top Gun Maverick

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Is this not how DRM works ? If you support deliberately handicapped content distribution platforms with your money do not blame anyone else but yourself

Edit: more precisely playback of DRMed content requires the endpoint to provide the distributor with guarantees wrt content duplication. It works exactly the same with DRMed content in Firefox because ultimately Apple/Mozilla do not make decisions on what you can or cannot do, Amazon Prime dictates that you can only access content if you relinquish your rights to prtscr (that is - the DR in DRM), and you decided to access the content.

This tweet lacks a lot of context. In what app was the screenshot taken? - for example netflix does this for all screenshots inside their app.

Do other screenshots look blank as well? - screenshot feature could be broken, idk lol

What version of ios does she use? - I heard there are a lot of bugs in the current beta

I don'l like apple, however this is next level. Just tweeted something, tagged a lot of famous people for technical support and left angry...

*does he use - typo

> In what app was the screenshot taken?

Amazon Prime video on macOS. I thought I could always count on Shift+Command+4. Imagine I'm talking to someone who is having a heart attack and want to send them a screenshot of a video with a bunch of tips on what to do. Shit like this really happens.

> netflix

Well fuck Netflix too then.

> ios

This was macOs. I am not sure about iOs.

This doesn’t mention the API used, and the best Google gives me (via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18680028/prevent-screen-...) is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextinputt...:

“A Boolean value that indicates whether a text object disables copying, and in some cases, prevents recording/broadcasting and also hides the text.”

⇒ it seems people creatively use this feature to hide views below such fields from screenshots, as in https://github.com/Stampoo/SnapshotSafeView (and, possibly, the commercial https://screenshieldkit.com/)

I do wonder what those “some cases” are, though, and also why we would want to not show a secure text field in a screen recording. Is giving away the length of your password deemed such a risk?

This is a case where the oxford comma would help remove ambiguity

I think it's supposed to list:

- disables copying

- (in some cases) prevents recording/broadcasting

- hides the text

Where "some cases" is simply some minimum iOS version and/or some other unknown hardware configuration that allows the device to prevent video recording

Only if your interpretation is correct - otherwise the serial comma is wrong.

I read it differently because of the use of “also”

I don't think the comma usage was wrong. The commas around "and in some cases" serve as both serializing the list and inserting the extra information that otherwise could've been removed from the sentence. However, it might have been better to use parenthesis to avoid the ambiguity.

The use of parallel verbs "disables", "prevents", and "hides" was a strong indicator to me that it was a list. I interpreted the "and also" at the end as a stylistic choice since the first two items follows the form "[verb] [ing-verb]" whereas the last item doesn't.

The fact that you you recognize the termination of grammatical parallelism in the final phrase yet inject authorial intentions of style into your analysis thereof to interpret the sentence as yet another example of the moral decay in English orthography indicates to me I need to leave the internet forever.

This is a silly place.

TIL allowing objects after their respective parallel verbs to not follow the same form is considered moral decay of the English language

And yes, the internet is a silly place where we'd rather have an off-topic argument about the subtleties of grammar than wait for an iOS developer to resolve the original question

The Netflix app also does this.

Stallman was right, as usual. It's not your phone, it's apple's phone

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