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by imwillofficial 1888 days ago
The irony of Android stopping this, and iOS allowing it is not lost on me.
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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

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.
I was not aware. thank you for the explanation