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[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago

i'm sorry did someone take a picture of a phone with another phone

[-] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 47 points 1 week ago

My favorite thing is videos with multiple layers of app UIs and phone toolbars over it, like a screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot.

[-] VHS@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

they did surgery on a grape

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

And you attempt to save it, but hit the recorded save button instead of the real one

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Generally I'd say this was a silly way to do it obviously (and that's probably still the case here) but it might not be the worst idea if you don't want anything linking back to the original phone like a photo message in your chat history etc. So long as you scrub the exif/photo meta data it doesn't risk a link with the person whose phone screen the original picture is on.

Copyrighted media is often watermarked with imperceptible details that are unique to each viewer and can be traced back to prevent leaks or piracy (think how focus groups get a highly visible transparent uuid plastered over their video). No idea if that technology is in use here or if the information loss from the photo of a photo is enough to remove the watermark, however.

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

This is true, but from the looks of this one I'd guess it's a hastily snapped picture from a bystander keeping a decent distance away (the low res zoom, bad framing etc).

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