Comment by high_na_euv
6 hours ago
>Doing a P2P money transfer and want to send a screenshot to the recipient for them to confirm their info before you hit submit on a non-reversible transfer?
Why not ask contact for data via text and just copy paste it with double check?
What if the app doesn't allow pasting? What if the communications app prevents copying?
For a short while, screenshots were a workaround for blocked copy-paste[0], as OCR (and, more recently, edge-deployed vision-enabled language models) would allow you to copy and paste any text from a screenshot. But guess what, now every other app is blocking screenshots!
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[0] - Which is the default on mobile apps, and unfortunately desktop apps too. I hate webshit applications, but if they have one redeeming grace, it's that by default, all text can be selected and copied, and it takes nontrivial engineering effort to break that, so most webapp vendors don't bother.
1. On the pre-submit-button screen it shows the recipient's name to confirm, but as in the GP example, if the recipient's name is in a character set different than your own, it would be nice to be able to have someone who can confirm the recipient's name matches.
2. And even if you copy-paste the recipient's account number, that also relies on your counterparty not having mistyped their account number, so it would be nice for #1 to be possible to confirm the name.