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TeMPOraLtoday at 7:42 AM0 repliesview on HN

Reading between the lines:

Oh, so you can take screenshots of the content that tries to avoid it if you do it mid-switch?

If it's reliable and WONTFIX, that's almost enough to get me to switch away from Android.

Screenshot taking prevention is harmful and should not have ever been allowed to become a platform-level feature in the first place. Because if there's one rule of platform/client interaction, is that if you add a feature that can be abused against customers for stupid reasons, it will be. There's a number of apps I have on my Android phone that block screenshots for dubious reasons, that can be maaaybe charitably explained by calling them "growth hacking pretending to be a security feature", but in some cases even that's a stretch.

This feature should never have existed in the first place.

(At least Bluesky is open about it, both by being Open Source and calling out the "growth hack" by name in source code.)