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Not sure if this is the correct place to post, but I just wanna kinda rant a bit.

I'm not the only one that hates this, right?

An app can just do a "This App Does Not Allow Screenshots"? Like... wtf?

Like, its my phone, and some app can just decide to disable a fuction of my phone. It's my phone and if I wanna take a screenshot, I'm taking a screenshot. I don't care about whatever "security" the app developer wants.

Imagine if every online shopping app whether fast food or amazon, just used this to block you from taking a screenshot so you can't save the records in case of a dispute.

Which android developer thought it was a good idea to let an app disable a function on your phone. Even iPhone doesn't have this stupid concept.

Sorry for the rant.

Anyone wanna share your stories?

(P.S. I have a cheap secondary phone to take photos of the screen. "This App Does Not Allow Screenshots" my ass lmao, I'm taking the screenshot whether the app wants it or not.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's nothing. My workplace disabled copy/paste on everyone's work iPhones completely. Not in their own apps but system wide. Apparently that's something ios allows them to do. Doesn't affect me much because I use the phone as a glorified dual auth token but some people have it as their primary phone.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

work iPhones

some people have it as their primary phone.

Bruh, I have no idea how people can put up with their employer being able control their device. Like... the employer can freak out about some perceived "security breach" and decide to wipe everyone's phone and you lose all your data like photos. Also, their employer can see if they are shit talking about the employer or mangement people, and it's a terrible idea if they want to unionize.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As an IT guy that manages MDMs, no we cannot see communications on the device

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

As another guy that does, yeah we can push ediscovery apps to the phone and pull all kinds of data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Something I've been dying to ask an industry expert. If your users setup a second user profile on android , and exclusively uses the second profile for work-related apps (assume full control), can you see the contents of the first (unrelated) user profile?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They are okay with it because it isn't their phone. It's a free phone that comes with the job.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

"Free"

hmm I rather not... like its not just "privacy" you'd have to worry about, there can be potentially a rogue employee of the company just stealing all your bank info and possibly steal your identity. Might be a "free" phone, but there's just much more risks than just getting a cheap android phone. People don't think this though and only think about the "free". Dealing with identity theft is not fun. If only people understand the risks... 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Don't put personal stuff on your work phone. Use your own phone for that. If you have trouble carrying both, hit the gym.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yea exactly. I would just carry 2 phones, but I'm just saying: I don't understand how other people just use their work phone for personal use simply because it's "free"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yes it's just a terrible idea. People do all sorts of dumb things though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

My work phone battery lasts for like 5-6 days because I only have Slack, MFA app, and outlook on it. It's crazy to use it for personal use