Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help.

It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes away at some point.

X does the same thing.

X and Threads do this too. I wish they all wouldn't, messing with screenshots should only ever be done when preventing them as a security measure.

This is arguably missing the "how" from the title -- can someone fix?

I think RevenueCat does the same thing. Smart way to exploit network effects!

This sort of stuff to me is an example of fear within an organization. Whenever I see engineering resources allocated towards self promotion and branding rather than quality and features for its users it shows how leaders want control over narratives.

This is clearly bullshit. Fuck the fucking growth hacker bullshit mentality that thinks documents of reality are theirs to manipulate.

The screenshot should be an artifact of what's on the screen. It's really something how tech companies have stopped even nodding in the direction of ethics.

has this guy lived on a rock? reddit/twitter/etc every social media platform does this already.

To be fair this is useful for discovering bluesky from screenshots getting posted on other platforms.

Their product UI kind of looks like X, so it's helpful to know the source of a post

As Spring inevitably leads to Winter, and Night follows Day, Thus the Inevitable Enshittification of all Centralized Platforms

This is phone OS developer's fault for even allowing it. When I take a screenshot, I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time. Its not a picture of your app, its a picture of my screen. Some banking apps used to (or still) prevent this and now some apps get a hook to insert their branding. My device serves some master other than myself.

Example n+1 of why I only use web and not download an app

Nobody in the comments talking about snapchat where like one of the core pillars of what "sets their service apart" is the difficulty of taking a screenshot without notifying the other party

This is in fact a watermark to promote the application, which otherwise wouldn't be recognizable since Bluesky looks like every other microblogging app. I didn't know that Sam literally named the file GrowthHack.tsx, which is pretty funny.

Tiktok has been watermarking videos since the beginning.

Is this iPhone only? I've never seen this on Android.

If it's between this and a perpetual logo, I'll take this any day.

I actually really like this approach. The action button isn't relevant in this context, and it doesn't occlude the content.

There's certainly situations where you wouldn't want this (ie if you're developing the app and you want to redesign starting from a screenshot), but for the average user I think this isn't overly hostile. I understand that people are dogmatically opposed to intent being modified, but I think you need to balance nuance. I actually enjoy having an attributable source in shared elements, and I think this is a low-impact way of achieving that.