For the first time ever, when i screenshotted it said “Wait! Don’t screenshot! this post looks better when you share it.” I’ve screenshotted plenty before and never seen this. Are they really that desperate for interaction?
The answer is yes, yes they are that desperate.
It’s ridiculous because sharing doesn’t look better. Sharing is broken as shit. You send a link to someone who isn’t familiar with reddit and the stupid app banner pops up, which the person doesn’t understand and doesn’t know what to do with. Then they eventually close that and a login pop-up shows up. Then they close that and Reddit forces a browser refresh because it has been a minute now. Then the app banner pops back up because of the refresh. Then the user clicks the image you were trying to show them and it takes the user to Imgur and the whole app/login thing repeats itself. This is assuming the content you were sharing wasn’t deleted by the user, or taken down by reddit or Imgur. Oh, and of course there are ads for them to deal with. Reddit didn’t create that content. They have no right to try to hoard it for themselves, and they actively get in the way of sharing it. Each company is putting all of these roadblocks in front of simple sharing, and then crying when you try to take a screenshot to get around the hurdles they have intentionally and unintentionally built in front of sharing. Assholes is what they are.
The Nextdoor.app does that invasive bullshit.
Wait! Don’t screenshot! this post looks better on our quarterly statement when you share it.
Using your phone or a computer? Had no idea a site could detect that.
It’s probably on the app, apps like snapchat implemented this feature a couple of years ago to notify the other user that a screenshot was taken.
Now that I’m thinking of it, It’s a possibility the application is not actually detecting a screenshot, but that the buttons have been pressed to create one. So perhaps one could circumvent that if you could edit which buttons to trigger a screenshot. I’ll google it, it’s intriguing me
Pretty sure iOS and Android have APIs to detect/block screenshots and screen capture.
Yeah, and it’s fucking bullshit. There are thousands of valid reasons to screenshot that don’t exclude actually sharing the stupid post. Fucking wankers. Corporations have destroyed the open internet.
You can disable the interception of screenshot though; did that on my phone. You need root access though. Still sucks that it is implemented in the first place.
They’ve been doing that for a while. It was annoying as shit, since it meant you couldn’t make a long screenshot.
That’s just objectively false, Reddit.
