How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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.

ebbi

X does the same thing.

_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.

winterqt

This is arguably missing the "how" from the title -- can someone fix?

bewal416

I think RevenueCat does the same thing. Smart way to exploit network effects!

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.

garyhasapoint

has this guy lived on a rock? reddit/twitter/etc every social media platform does this already.

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

Razengan

As Spring inevitably leads to Winter, and Night follows Day, Thus the Inevitable Enshittification of all Centralized Platforms

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.

adolph

Example n+1 of why I only use web and not download an app

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

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.

lukeholder

Tiktok has been watermarking videos since the beginning.

add-sub-mul-div

Is this iPhone only? I've never seen this on Android.

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.

kimos

Perplexity does this on web by adding a logo in response to key combos for normal screenshot shortcuts.

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.)

whalesalad

I’ve noticed that if you screenshot a thread in the threads app an “@threads” logo appears in the upper right corner

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?