[thejsa]

> Why would android even allow such restrictions to be enabled in the first place?

To enforce DRM in streaming apps, mostly; though other apps have ended up bodging that for their own purposes.

I suppose at least in the context of secure messaging or banking apps (which also do this) it makes you think twice before snapping something, but even so I think there should be a variant of whatever API which lets the user override it / disable it globally.

Only genuine security concern I can think of that it addresses is that of screen recording malware / stalkerware (assuming said malware doesn't already have root access on your device to circumvent it...), and perhaps the risk of accidentally screenshotting/capturing something sensitive like bank details while screen sharing.

[imwillofficial]

The irony of Android stopping this, and iOS allowing it is not lost on me.

[permo-w]

iOS definitely stops it to an extent

you can’t screen record or screenshot netflix or disney+

it doesn’t explicitly block it, but the screen just comes out black or stuck on a single frame

whether that’s a feature or an exploit, I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem too unreasonable

[nexuist]

It is blocked on iOS but it's not the app's choice, it has to do with the video player utilizing DRM decoding hardware (Widevine-esque). That's why screenshots can be blocked on Netflix but not on Snapchat.

[permo-w]

I was not aware. thank you for the explanation