> Native apps can block screenshots
> This is important to protect privacy (nudes) and people have come to expect it.
Considering you can just, ya know, take a picture of it, this doesn't seem important at all.
> This is important to protect privacy (nudes) and people have come to expect it.
Considering you can just, ya know, take a picture of it, this doesn't seem important at all.
- it protects the platform, to some extent, by reducing the number of unwanted screenshots
- it sets a social norm that taking screenshots is unwanted and makes the screenshot taker look extra creepy if they share the image with anyone
- if a platform provides screenshot blocking, and users (who have all seen pictures of one screen taken from another device) value that protection and make decisions about what to post based on it, the company should think long and hard before deploying a version that breaks that assumption
Well it is quite trivial to save the photos, either by network interception or patching the app etc. , which ordinary users may not even consider.
Not quite related, but I think "deleting messages" falls into a similar problem. It makes end users think they are "safe" or whatever, but the reality is that if a message was delivered to the other parties phone, they could easily have the original text despite any deletions, e.g. a cached notification or similar.