Topic: digital watermarking

Bluesky’s logo appears in screenshots: How it works

Blueskyโ€™s logo appears in screenshots: How it works
I’d never noticed how much social apps leave behind when you screenshot them—until I tried it with Bluesky. The logo appears in the top right corner of every image, like some kind of digital watermark. It’s not subtle. It’s not optional. And if you try to crop it out, the app just shrinks the image so the logo still peeks through, stubborn as a subscription pop-up. What makes this weirder is that it doesn’t happen with every app. Most let screenshots be private, boring rectangles of pixels. But Bluesky? It actively draws its logo over the screenshot as if it’s staking a claim. I can’t tell if it’s useful or just mildly invasive, but it’s definitely not something I expected from a social network. Technical Overview The codebase clocks in at 66 lines (59 lines of actual logic) and weighs in at 1.97 KB. That’s fine—small codebases are easier to reason about and harder to break—but size alone doesn’t tell the whole story. The part that stands out isn’t the compactness. It’s the...