Re: Screenshots etc.

On 2026/2/7 21:42:9, Maria Sophia wrote:
> J. P. Gilliver wrote:

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>> People have been requesting screenshots - and in response, people have
>> been uploading them to file/image sharing sites, and posting the URL of
>> the uploaded file (thus remaining within "text-only" rules) - for years,
>> decades I think.
> 
> And, I might add, since of the million things we should know about privacy,
> we only know about six of them, PNRU fingerprinting becomes unreliable once

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>   *The camera 'can' uniquely be tracked across all three postings.*
> 
> As processing power and storage gets better and better, the more it will be
> that we're tracked by our own online activities, such as this screenshot.
>  <https://i.postimg.cc/xTDmWpt4/organization-phone-pc.jpg>

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they _aren't_ out to get
you" - but!

I think the vast majority of screenshots uploaded are actually screen
_captures_, which obviously do not have the pixel-stains of a camera
shot. On the whole, the only time a camera is used is in discussion of
BIOS and similar screens (or, occasionally, where things happen too fast
- though you then probably need a video camera in order to be able to
get the image you want; even then, screen capture can be video).

So, yes, your privacy concern _can_ be valid - but only for a small
fraction of screen "shots".

-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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