Ha, yes, I found it irritating very recently when trying to share my blood counts from the lab draw. My Medical app doesn't do screenshots.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Tech products need to just fuck off and stay in their lane. Why are you, an app, deciding whether I can use an OS level feature or not? Why is my hardware deciding which OS I'm allowed to run?
And also, it should be a permission you can toggle. Just like "overlaying over other apps" or whatever it is in english.
If you feel that way, you should (and I am not being facetious) throw away your phone, get a land line, a linux tablet, and hell, maybe a raspi running Asterix on your land line so you can talk on it from your tablet. Your philosophy is valid but the proprietary landscape of the phone-iverse is intentionally designed to make it unpracticable. You cannot use any SIM-based tech, let alone iOS or Android.
there should just be an extra layer of authetication if the feature can be used by malicious apps. for example, the screenshot could be encrypted and you need to unlock it with pin/fingerprint whenever an app wants to access it. that way, the screenshot can be made at an instant and the infostealer still can't get it.
Why does the OS allow that in the first place? Even grapheneos allows apps to do that and it's so stupid. Especially when the app has a website version where I can do whatever I want.
It's an OS level feature to not allow the other OS level feature, believe it or not.
one app we use for fire dispatch involves phi. it makes sense to not allow screenshots if they’re not gonna notify and fire those who screenshot.
Double points if you're using something like waydroid or otherwise running android in a VM. Then you can screenshot from the host OS.
That's illegal
Is it still possible to spoof SafetyNet on Waydroid?
On waydroid you need to do some hacky stuff. You need to root the VM, use ReZygisk to manage the root modules, flash the Play Integrity Fix Magisk module to spoof device properties, install TrickyStore, a module designed to spoof cryptographic hardware key attestation, Use Play Integrity Fork to force the VM to pass basic integrity checks. There's gennymotion which allows some apps to work.
So basically just like with DVD players.
Unfortunately this is what you need to do on any rooted Android rn :(
Click farms have racks of boards they're running. I've always thought about that approach. I'm sure there's a more elegant approach. At the end of the day it is just modulated voltages. I'm more of an iot type and I've definitely spoofed signals before. It's a bit like flipping bits or changing hex codes to get some desired outcome. The hardest part is locating where it is and then knowing what to change it to and also avoiding bricking the device which in the case of a VM isn't too big of a problem.
can't screenshot my bank's app, but can't stop me on a browser
Wait until they develop and implement web-page based DRM for their website.