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Hopefully we can turn this off, this is going to destroy usability be very annoying.
It sounds like this feature is working as intended - closing was was a silent security risk.
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Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy/permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.
Especially when its taken 14 versions to get this information.
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People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The "walled garden" also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it's overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it's awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.
Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy/permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.
Both systems have extreme downfalls with the strategy they have taken, Apple's walled garden, and Google's necessity to use tracking because they are an ad company and this is how they make money.
Overall, Apple's certainly the lesser of two evils, but I think I'll be considering a PinePhone next, once the software ecosystem has matured a bit. I'm going to start speaking with my wallet and not conceding to settling.
I know there are a few apps which will check the clipboard in order to provide functionality to the user. For example, some shipping apps will check the clipboard to see if the user has a copied tracking code and if so, ask the user if they want to track their copied code. Not sure if TikTok does something similar, but there are certainly innocent reasons for checking the clipboard.
> Not sure if TikTok does something similar, but there are certainly innocent reasons for checking the clipboard. If I find someone digging through my mailbox, I don't start rationalizing their reasons for it - I ask them to explain themselves, and that explanation had better fucking be a good one.
iOS already prompts for other things like "app Foo would like to know your location: Never, Only when open, Always". Users are use to this. I'd love a popup like: "TikTok wants to see what you've copied into your clipboard: Never, Once, Always, Uninstall that spyware". Then I could make informed decisions, like sure, my package tracker can see if there's a FedEx URL in my clipboard. I'm OK with that. There's literall…
There should also be a log “App foo has used your location at these times: }
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Android similarly has been continually improving the privacy/permissions model of the OS when it comes to third party apps. I am not sure that Apple has any obvious advantage in that department specifically.
Android is a spyware operating system filled with first party spyware apps developed by Google.
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A Yubikey or similar device is a good way to mitigate the damage of having your password manager's password stolen. https://bitwarden.com/help/article/setup-two-step-login-yubi...
And for macOS users, Touch ID takes this further without any devices, dongles or passwords, which 1Password, Dashlane, etc already supports.
With a Yubikey, the only thing you have to do to stay secure is to not lose it or let others use it.
Here's a test you should run. Create a bitly account if you don't have one and login and create a bitly link for anything, it doesn't matter what it is. Copy that bitly link to your clipboard and repeat what you're doing in that video. Monitor the bitly link for clicks. Better still do it on a website you control with a unique URL that won't get indexed by a search engine and monitor the web server log files for hits…
