Ironically, Google's new creepy Circle to Search feature gets to override the screenshot denial lockout that Google themselves created.
Doesn't appear to work in my case. I can a blank screen like I would when trying to screenshot.
Of course. When you run a monopoly, you get to make your own rules.
EU should force Google to open Android back up.
I fuckin hate that Playstation 4 and 5 do this for taking screenshots from movies. I just want to get a good screen grab for meme purposes! Do you think I'm going to screen shot every goddamn frame of a movie, one at a time, paste those back together as a video, then somehow rip the audio too, and then share this necromantically-assembled abomination with all my pirate buddies? Fuck you!
Now that is really stupid, especially given how easy it is to just fire up the movie on your PC and take a screenshot from there.
Netflix does this on windows too
I was able to use snipping tool to take screenshots when I had Netflix, but I also used it through my browser.
And that's why you should refuse to pay a penny and just pirate everything by default. If you feel like supporting the creators, donate to their union strike fund.
Wanna know what's even more fucked up? Few years back, I had exactly this problem. Searched the internet for a solution. Guess what?
Enable Google Voice Assistant and say "Ok Google. Take a screenshot." Google magically has the rights to make a screenshot on the App that doesn't let you, the user, take the screenshot.
Next phone I get is gonna be something with a alternate OS, no Android or iOS.
Good luck with finding an alternative. I tried running a Pinephone Pro with Linux and it was just too buggy to use.
If your current phone lasts 4 more years it might be ok software wise but good god is it bad now.
That OS won't have those banking apps in the first place, so what's the difference to just not installing them on Android?
Man, my banking app recently switched to a different keyboard. One that doesn't allow integrations like bitwarden. I also cannot copy paste my password into the password field so I have to enter my 32 character password by hand.
Mind you, this is not an app that does ANY banking in the first place it is just to authorize access to my bank account or for transactions.
So it is always a few minutes copying the password, making sure I haven't miss-typed on the shitty keyboard or because of my sausage fingers and then being logged out of my bank account in the browser because it took so much time copying that password.
Aaaah! I'm so frustrated by this BS. Its MY phone. It should be MY choice.
Switching to GrapheneOS soon, and if the bank app(s) don't work, too bad. I'll use a (Linux) computer.
The only apps where this makes any sense are dating apps and similar social apps where a level of social vulnerability is more likely.
Otherwise agree that all others are BS.
I hate the whole bloody smartphone ecosystem for shit like this. Microsoft Palladium was widely seen as a nightmare scenario when it proposed ceding a bunch of user control to the OS and app developers a couple decades ago, even by the mainstream press. It seems Apple and Google used it as a roadmap, likely because people don't know how to use computers, and that doesn't seem to be improving.
The part of the modern mobile OS security model that does have merit is that apps aren't trusted. The PC model, even in multiuser operating systems with fancy permissions was that apps are user agents which are always doing something the user asked for, and therefore trusted as much as the user. The glut of spyware for Windows in the early 2000s proved that false.
The fact that somebody else doesn't know how to use a computer shouldn't force me to cede control over mine to participate in the modern world. Root is a bit of an escape hatch, but it's a blunt instrument on Android, and Google tries to help app developers stop me from using that as well. I'm starting to feel like Richard Stallman was right about everything and I should go be a digital hermit, only running software I compiled from source.
I hate this "feature" of the Dexcom GCM app. They seem to believe that HIPPA law prevents me from sharing my glucose readings with anyone I choose to.
To send readings to people, I can't screenshot the app but I can screenshot the notification which contains the same info 🤷🏼
Yep, same with the-shitty ass Kaiser Permanente app, which itself is just a webview wrapper around the crappy kp.org website. I cannot screenshot my test results, or any other screen within the app, but I can go to the same-ass page in my browser and take my screenshot from the website.
I don't have much to add other than my agreement. They've been tightening the noose around our necks little by little for years now. But don't worry, screenshots and copying and pasting text will return...as a microsubscription! /s
The security argument is a lie, I think. I think websites like Netflix like these features so it's difficult to approach copying a video.
If security were an issue I don't think you'd be able to copy text to the clipboard in situations where you can't screenshot.
Yep it's bullshit I hate it too.
you can bypass this with a rootkit
i think they do it for security reasons. if you can take screenshots of sensitive data, so can malware. however, you should be able to disable it for netflix for example.
Netflix and other streaming apps do it to prevent screen recording their 'premium' content. These use DRM too and the region of protected content shows in black in scrcpy. These apps are much hostile to users much beyond screenshot and shouldn't be used anyway. Most movies and shows can be pirated from torrent, illegal streaming sites or simply telegram in good quality and watched in say vlc for much better experience than these crappy apps provide.
Soooo... Any Magisk module that allows one to bypass this?
There's is an LSPosed module called Disable-FLAG_SECURE that does this
Yes, it's simple, if you don't want me to screenshot your software then don't display it on my screen.
You can bypass this crap, but you'll need to root your phone to achieve that.
Afterwards you'll need to install magisk (superuser app) and a bunch of plugins: play integrity fix and playcurl_next (to simulate that your phone is unrooted), and then FlagSecurePatcher (which is the actual module that's overriding the screenshot block.
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