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>>wicket+(OP)
My Android phone prevents me from taking screenshots if an app author doesn't want me to.

My Android phone prevents me from recording phone calls at the request of my carrier, even though it's totally legal for me to do so in my jurisdiction.

I'm not loving where this is all going.

>>jeffpa+D5
> prevents me from taking screenshots if an app author doesn't want me to

The most frustrating part about this "feature" is that you don't know it's enabled until the screenshot is taken and you're left with a picture of nothing.

That and some app authors thinking they're protecting you with this (referring to banking apps in particular)

>>hypeat+d8
In some sense they are. But being protected either from a consequence of my own stupidity or a consequence of their lack of security. I think the worst part of all is that these "bandaids" are being used in place of actual security. I don't need to be protected from my own stupidity nor do I need security theater.

>>godels+Uu
I think the threat model here is that a different, malicious app (compromised, installed accidentally or by the means of social engineering) might take screenshots of your screen and forward them to take advantage of you. You can file this under one's "own stupidity" as well, sure, but in the end they're not protecting you, they're protecting themselves, because banks might be liable for these kind of things, and by imposing these restrictions, they're reducing the amount of fraud and thus improve their bottom line.

>>mr_mit+4I
I think you made bad assumptions. If I installed the APK through a third party, sure, my bad. But then I agree with shmel, that there's still some blame on Google. Like why not have a default where we disable screenshots not performed by a physical action and have an advanced option for API based screenshots? It's not bulletproof but neither is the current implementation.

But if I install via the playstore like most people then no, I don't think it's the user's fault. Testing every single app seems like a big ask but we're also talking about a 3 trillion dollar company. I mean FFS a 1 trillion dollar company didn't even exist 10 years ago and 10 years before that a 500b company barely did. So I think they can stand to lose some profits and do harder work. Really, if we don't hold these companies to high standards then that bar just continues lower and it's a race to the bottom. They'll be as lazy as we let them be