Screenshot blocking: Difference between revisions

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== Screenshot events ==

Android 14 has added a "screenshot event" and Android 15 a "screen recording event". This makes it easy for apps to notice if the owner takes a screenshot or screen recording, and alter their behaviour accordingly.

Android 14 has added a "screenshot event" and Android 15 a "screen recording event". This makes it easy for apps to notice if the owner takes a screenshot or screen recording, and alter their behaviour accordingly. This takes even more control away from the device owner.

~~This takes even more control away from the device owner.~~ App makers have no business preventing phone owners from taking screenshots and screen recordings on their property. Screenshot blocking gives the user the same kind of security that disconnecting the internet gives. Sure, you may be "more secure", but you lose access to a useful resource. By locking us down, Google and app makers show they think we are babies who can not take care of ourselves.

== Conclusion ==

App makers have no business preventing phone owners from taking screenshots and screen recordings on their property. Screenshot blocking gives the user the same kind of security that disconnecting the internet gives. Sure, you may be "more secure", but you lose access to a useful resource. By locking us down, Google and app makers show they think we are babies who can not take care of ourselves.

The violation of your ownership outweighs any trivial privacy benefit you may get from it. Even if there was a privacy benefit, you as the device owner should have the final authority.

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 == Screenshot events ==
-Android 14 has added a "screenshot event" and Android 15 a "screen recording event". This makes it easy for apps to notice if the owner takes a screenshot or screen recording, and alter their behaviour accordingly.
+Android 14 has added a "screenshot event" and Android 15 a "screen recording event". This makes it easy for apps to notice if the owner takes a screenshot or screen recording, and alter their behaviour accordingly. This takes even more control away from the device owner.
-This takes even more control away from the device owner. App makers have no business preventing phone owners from taking screenshots and screen recordings on their property. Screenshot blocking gives the user the same kind of security that disconnecting the internet gives. Sure, you may be "more secure", but you lose access to a useful resource. By locking us down, Google and app makers show they think we are babies who can not take care of ourselves.
+== Conclusion ==
+App makers have no business preventing phone owners from taking screenshots and screen recordings on their property. Screenshot blocking gives the user the same kind of security that disconnecting the internet gives. Sure, you may be "more secure", but you lose access to a useful resource. By locking us down, Google and app makers show they think we are babies who can not take care of ourselves.
 The violation of your ownership outweighs any trivial privacy benefit you may get from it. Even if there was a privacy benefit, you as the device owner should have the final authority.