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Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:06 PM UTC

leephillips wrote: post #42

inetknght wrote: post #35

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Think it's just the app? Hope you don't have your clipboard events enabled in your browser Edit for those interested: tl;dr: "asynchronous clipboard API" [0] Overtly, it's used by shit news sites like WSJ, nytimes, and bloomberg to inject their shit into your clipboard when you copy-paste. A common thing I've noticed is selecting text, copying the text, and then pasting somewhere and seeing a link to the original art…

Can you explain this a bit for me here?

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Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by shawnz » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:06 PM UTC

_bxg1 wrote: post #78

rkagerer wrote: post #21

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Well, once upon a time you trusted the code running on your device. 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.

iOS very early-on took on a model of not trusting the software you install on it, and for good reason. Android and the web followed soon afterward. This is the expectation today. Doubly so given Apple's chest-beating about privacy. This clipboard scandal is unacceptable.

Android also had permissions from the beginning.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by DavideNL » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

Glad Apple added this feature, it seems to work well as it exposes these issues.

He's typing IN the LinkedIn app though, right? Can apps read the clipboard when running in the background too?

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by maram » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

_bxg1 wrote: post #78

rkagerer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, once upon a time you trusted the code running on your device. 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.

iOS very early-on took on a model of not trusting the software you install on it, and for good reason. Android and the web followed soon afterward. This is the expectation today. Doubly so given Apple's chest-beating about privacy. This clipboard scandal is unacceptable.

> This clipboard scandal is unacceptable.

What do you expect when the CEO holds an MBA?

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by Bedon292 » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

Discord throws the warning every time you tap on the text box. https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/hfcvbu/is_disco... fixed with a single line change. They were trying to determine if the paste button should show up or not.

I am curious what LinkedIn is actually doing with the data. Is it being exfilled somehow? Or is it just doing something in a really dumb way? I don't trust them at all to not be taking the data, but what purpose does it have?

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by sseneca » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

how important is it to have LinkedIn? as somebody just starting their career, I've never really been told to have it but it's as if it's sort of assumed. in general I don't have other social media, and if LinkedIn isn't that important then I'd rather not have it, too.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by mcherm » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

asplake wrote: post #15

Does this recurring problem suggest a missing API?

Yes.

It would all be a lot simpler if browsers and other operating systems just implemented an API call for obtainAllMyPrivateInformation(). That's clearly what developers like LinkedIn (and TicToc, etc.) are looking for.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by oblio » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:13 PM UTC

sdinsn wrote: post #73

oblio wrote: post #37

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The question is, does Android itself have that flag?

No, in Android the app that is in focus can read from the clipboard without restriction

Background stuff?

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by _bxg1 » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:14 PM UTC

shawnz wrote: post #92

_bxg1 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS very early-on took on a model of not trusting the software you install on it, and for good reason. Android and the web followed soon afterward. This is the expectation today. Doubly so given Apple's chest-beating about privacy. This clipboard scandal is unacceptable.

Android also had permissions from the beginning.

It only declared and didn't let you individually toggle permissions until version 6.0. You just had to take-or-leave the app as-is. I don't know whether or not it declared them from the very beginning.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by sleepybrett » Thu, Jul 02, 2020, 9:15 PM UTC

_bxg1 wrote: post #78

rkagerer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, once upon a time you trusted the code running on your device. 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.

iOS very early-on took on a model of not trusting the software you install on it, and for good reason. Android and the web followed soon afterward. This is the expectation today. Doubly so given Apple's chest-beating about privacy. This clipboard scandal is unacceptable.

I think i saw that some of the new betas of ios pop an alert whenever software sniffs your pasteboard.. maybe i'm wrong. Seems like I saw somethng during the tiktok stuff earlier this week.