I thought I was safe if I blocked all of the permissions these apps "require" like Contacts on Android.
I'm uninstalling this app from my phone now. This isn't acceptable!
LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
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#12TikTok first, then LinkedIn, then what?
I don't feel like they're the first, and I doubt they're the last.
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#13My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
A few years ago, linkedin purposefully changed their notification emails to have less information so you're forced to log in and read the notification on their platform. Linkedin is also widely known for when they scraped users contacts and then spammed them.
Call it incompetence if you want, but there's a certain flavor of evil incompetence here.
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#15Does this recurring problem suggest a missing API?
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#16LinkedIn has had so many privacy disasters over the years, and it's kinda crazy how we kinda tend to forget most of that eventually. I definitely wouldn't trust them with much of your data.
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#17One of my hobbies is looking at url strings with GET key/value pairs. Programmers must forget that they're visible to users. LinkedIn has a search workflow that shows "origin=TYPEAHEAD_ESCAPE_HATCH" which I've always found humorous.
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#18Guess I'm never copying and pasting anything sensitive on my phone ever again. Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag.
I’m not sure why they didn’t add a permissions flag for it either to be honest. Most apps are going to stop doing it because of the notifications, and presumably those that continue will make some effort to explain it somewhere so people don’t panic and uninstall their app when they’re told about it. Seems like a permissions flag with the usual app’s explanation of why would work well.
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#19Does this recurring problem suggest a missing API?
When I saw this video of a lot more apps doing it, I did wonder if it actually might be a commonly used third-party library causing this. It's certainly possible.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#20My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
A few years ago, linkedin purposefully changed their notification emails to have less information so you're forced to log in and read the notification on their platform. Linkedin is also widely known for when they scraped users contacts and then spammed them. Call it incompetence if you want, but there's a certain flavor of evil incompetence here.
Facebook (including Messenger) does it too.
There might be a thin guise of "security" (i.e. email isn't a secure place to send your top-secret inbound message) but I'm inclined to suspect the main motivation is to drive people back to the platform and drive up their stickiness metrics.
It's user-hostile.