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by kabacha 2294 days ago
How exactly would twitter know if something is screenshotted? The way snapchat does this is check screenshots folder for new files while you are watching the story - to avoid this all you need is an different screenshot app that saves screenshots somewhere else.

Now twitter has multiple apps, multiple platforms including desktop. You'd need some absurd DRM that would be broken anyway to enforce this.

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> The way snapchat does this is check screenshots folder for new files

Does this mean that the Snapchat screenshot detection doesn't work if you don't give it the storage permission?

It may be possible to watermark the ux so that at least posting the screenshot could be blocked on their own platform.