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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.

Fejlesztő
varenc
Napi telepítések
1
Telepítések száma
645
Értékelések
1 0 0
Verzió
0.1.2
Létrehozva
2023.06.08.
Frissítve
2023.07.17.
Licensz
MIT
Érvényes

Update 2024-10-24

If you like this script, check out ExamV1's fork of it here. The code there has been cleaned up a bit and it causes "you are no longer present" to appear a bit less. Kudos to @ExamV1 ! Also if anyone has insights on how to further prevent Snapchat from detecting a lack of focus/visibility change, let me know. Chrome Dev Tools's "Emulate a Focused Page" works quite well but haven't yet figured out how to replicate that in JS.

Description

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.