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Unbreak Snapchat web. Disable focus tracking and screenshot prevention

Improve the Snapchat web experience by disabling screenshot prevention features which don't prevent screenshots but do actively harm the usability.

As of 2023-07-17. See the latest version.

Author
varenc
Ratings
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Version
0.1.2
Created
2023-06-08
Updated
2023-07-17
Size
3.36 KB
License
MIT
Applies to

This userscript makes Snapchat web more usable by disabling its ill-guided attempts to prevent screenshots by monitoring control keys and tracking focus. These attempts by Snapchat do nothing to actually prevent screenshots, which they document as not being prevented, but they do actively harm the user experience. For example, say I want to reference my friend's trip info while in another browser window. When the page isn't focused, the content is hidden.

This userscript just disables all that. It intercepts and blocks modifier keypress events and sets `document.hasFocus()` to always be true. This makes Snapchat web much more usable.

NOTE: I've just updated this so it also prevents right-clicking from making Snapchat think you've lost focus. This also disables the ability to right-click on a message to react, but I think that's a fair tradeoff since you can do that in other ways. If you feel otherwise, let me know! I love feedback in general.