Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and more

Re:Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and ... by nahqz on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:46AM (#29483232)

The problem here is not that Telegram disallows you from taking screenshots but that the OS, which should be on the side of the user, allows apps to disallow you from taking screenshots.

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Re:Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and ... by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:16AM (#29485720)

The OS probably doesn’t disallow any such thing, but several apps have found workarounds such as briefly setting the screen dark when it detects a screenshot, or various other forms of trickery.

The result is that the screenshot still gets taken (they have no way of disabling that), but the photo is unusable.

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Re:Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and ... by nahqz on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:18AM (#29485752)

Also, the OS shouldn't tell the foreground app when a screenshot is being taken.

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Re:Protected Content, Delete by Date, Device Management and ... by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:36AM (#29486000)

Agreed, but there’d probably be an uproar from the content providers, and neither Apple nor Google has an incentive to be on the users side on this one :/

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