This is ironic. Using restrictive tech to restrict the restrictive techies
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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We asked Microsoft not to take photos of our app, and they super promised they wouldn't
You can't ever be sure that Microsoft really honors said attribute and omits this window from screenshots. Gotta love closed source...
Aren’t the screenshots viewable by the user? So it would be very easy to verify this.
No way to verify that those are the ones being sent or the only ones. You have to trust Microsoft with that. And there is IMO no good reason for that.
This is actually a pretty simple to do for an app dev, it's just a window attribute to tell windows to not include (or back out) a window in a screenshot.