I only ever used bluesky/twitter via web app on my phone, and stuff like this affirms that it's the right decision.

If not for the function being named "GrowthHack" I would have thought that hiding following status for screenshots to be a good privacy measure. They don't use it to hide anything else and since I'm not a user of the app I don't know if there is more extraneous information that could be used to infer or track down who screenshotted and they don't hide.

This trick was almost certainly invented by Nikita Bier when he joined X.

Perplexity does this on web by adding a logo in response to key combos for normal screenshot shortcuts.

They're just following Apple's lead.

When iPhone shipped, any time you emailed a photo it would append "Sent from my iPhone" to try to virally market. Same or at least similar slimey tactics

This is why I use the browser version for anything. I’m using an actual user agent.

X does the same thing.

This technique would be devious if applied to a QR code.

Why would someone use Bluesky? Isn't that a cesspool of the same midwit scolds, purity spirals, and performative outrage that made Twitter unbearable before the great migration?