antisnap

Antisnap is a coinage used in several technical and digital contexts with no single, widely accepted definition. In discussions of content protection and user privacy, antisnap commonly refers to strategies intended to deter or block the capture of visual information, such as screenshots or screen recordings. Implementations vary and may include platform-enforced restrictions, transient overlays, or watermarking; all face limitations related to platform policy, user workarounds, and potential impact on accessibility.

In software development, antisnap can appear as a project name, module label, or feature descriptor for mechanisms that guard against rapid or unintended actions described as "snaps" in event-driven architectures. Such usage is informal and synthetically defined by teams, rather than standardized across the industry.

The term also appears in discussions of media formats and digital rights management, where antisnap describes approaches to prevent quick republishing of protected content or to make captured media less usable. As a result, antisnap is best understood as a flexible umbrella term rather than a fixed concept.

Etymology: a blend of anti- and snap, signaling opposition to a triggering or capturing action. See also: screenshot protection, screen recording prevention, watermarking, digital rights management, anti-tamper.