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Tech products need to just fuck off and stay in their lane. Why are you, an app, deciding whether I can use an OS level feature or not? Why is my hardware deciding which OS I'm allowed to run?
Why does the OS allow that in the first place? Even grapheneos allows apps to do that and it's so stupid. Especially when the app has a website version where I can do whatever I want.
Android does a halfway decent job of keeping things secure. System apps can't access another app's private files or databases.
One of the reasons why if I ever get a phone supporting gos, I will root it.
What business does an os have to support taking screenshots, and support disabling notifications, but then make it completely impossible to take screenshots of some things or disable some notifications out of judgement that is sometimes just wrong.
And also, it should be a permission you can toggle. Just like "overlaying over other apps" or whatever it is in english.
there should just be an extra layer of authetication if the feature can be used by malicious apps. for example, the screenshot could be encrypted and you need to unlock it with pin/fingerprint whenever an app wants to access it. that way, the screenshot can be made at an instant and the infostealer still can't get it.
It's an OS level feature to not allow the other OS level feature, believe it or not.
one app we use for fire dispatch involves phi. it makes sense to not allow screenshots if they’re not gonna notify and fire those who screenshot.
PII or PHI?
a little of both, yeah.
If you feel that way, you should (and I am not being facetious) throw away your phone, get a land line, a linux tablet, and hell, maybe a raspi running Asterix on your land line so you can talk on it from your tablet. Your philosophy is valid but the proprietary landscape of the phone-iverse is intentionally designed to make it unpracticable. You cannot use any SIM-based tech, let alone iOS or Android.