Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
by criddell on Sunday March 30, 2025 @10:41AM
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On modern mobile and desktop operating systems, you can always copy that portion of the screen to the clipboard and it will recognize the text so you can paste it anywhere.
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I’ve noticed that apps can tell when you’re taking a screenshot and often will pop up a little message first which appears in the screenshot.
Reddit on iOS was one that did it.
Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
by ycombinator_acc on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:55PM
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No you can't.
Even if you could (which you can't, at least on my, modern, phone), it would be a workaround, not a solution.
A solution would be allowing free selection like in the browser or, better yet, ditching "native" apps for web apps, as the person above suggested. As a bonus, this "exodus" will force browser makers to iron out any UX issues very quickly.