No program or app should have any ability to alter or interfere with a screenshot. The “security feature,” to abuse copyright is a security flaw.
If I’m taking a screenshot, it’s because I want to accurately preserve what I’m seeing. Doing anything, clever or not, to alter that is a breach of trust.
Doing it for the purpose of branding/advertising, of all things, only adds insult to injury.
Tries it.
Nah that’s pretty clever, a little Easter egg
so I don’t expect it to be patched by Apple any time soon
Why would they patch it? It’s working as expected.
This is exploiting an edge case behaviour of a security feature. At a programming level, this is bad code, and will break at some point, possibly in an ugly way. I also don’t like the idea of apps being sneaky and hiding behaviour from users.
I use Voyager, and there’s a button “share as screenshot / image”, which allows you to include a watermark, and shows you exactly what the end result will look like. Just do something like that instead?
It’s not bad code, it’s just code you don’t like. Unless there is a major overhaul with the security package they are using, that could cause issues, but that’s not likely going to happen because huge security changes mean legitimate implementations break as well. As for hiding it from users, this is an open source app. The code is literally available for anyone to view. If someone is unable to parse it out, that’s on them.
Is what he’s referring to. If they’re not using the feature in the intended way, it’s likely to break in the future. Though the consequences of it breaking are what, they don’t brand your screenshots?
