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Guess 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.
In Chrome on Android, the flag you want is under Settings | Site Settings | Clipboard | Ask before allowing sites to read text and images from the clipboard, and I think it's on by default.
Does this recurring problem suggest a missing API?
My 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.
Guess 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.
My 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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Guess 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.
Not a fan of any of the big tech companies, but Apple needs to be applauded for this feature. Can't wait to see how many such behavior is exposed by iOS 14
My 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.
His book is also staggering insight into how little ability he has an executive and investor (some of the stuff is intern-level mistakes, like maybe juniors who are in their first week and got the job because of daddy...but even then...rare).