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

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Post by gpderetta »

victorkab wrote: post #76
lostdog wrote: post #13

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.

I have no dog in this fight, but I was at LinkedIn at the time, on teams that worked closely to this. I can assure you that these changes were not made to force log in. It was a recommendation from the security team. I know it's Hacker News and it's easy to criticize LinkedIn for shady growth practices and get praise for it. They often deserve it, but assigning malicious/growth intent for every change they make is mi…

Clicking on links on linkedin emails on android would redirect to the appstore every few clicks. Was that also recommend by the security team?

Fixed by switching to firefox and blocking redirects.

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

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Post by robmiller »

SethKinast wrote: post #108
robmiller wrote: post #17

One 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.

Haha I worked on that flow. It's the escape hatch because we didn't find what you were looking for in the typeahead, so we have to let you escape to the full SERP results page.

Admittedly, all because I don't want to ding the user that I viewed their profile, but the search results shows enough...

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

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Post by RandallBrown »

doctoboggan wrote: post #113

You have to imagine the Apple engineers who implemented this new clipboard notification knew this shitstorm was coming.

I'm guessing that's part of the reason they didn't implement a clipboard permission. It would probably have broken a TON of stuff in weird ways.

I expect to see an actual clipboard permission at some point.

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

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Post by cheez »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #119

LinkedIn has a history of acting like a cretin: multiple data breaches, dark patterns where they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app" (just so that they can harvest a wider range of data). I managed many marketing campaigns on Linkedin over the years and spent thousands each month on the platform as a corporate user. If you think that paying…

This is true. I've often used it to price services/software once I figure out how big the company is.

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

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

RandallBrown wrote: post #123
doctoboggan wrote: post #113

You have to imagine the Apple engineers who implemented this new clipboard notification knew this shitstorm was coming.

I'm guessing that's part of the reason they didn't implement a clipboard permission. It would probably have broken a TON of stuff in weird ways. I expect to see an actual clipboard permission at some point.

a tinfoil hat tip: imagine the shitstorm if Apple would allow proper introspection instead of suing these companies who offer such a service. that storm would be much harder to manage now. if I'd really believe it myself I'd even say controlling the messaging was part of the reason why they sued these companies and instead are providing limited subset of such features themselves.

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

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Post by ebg13 »

0xEFF wrote: post #88
leephillips wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so obviously, blindingly true that I am amazed it’s even possible for apps to do this.

Launchbar and Dash on the mac both have great clipboard features. I use it many times a day. For example, a snippet to drop a markdown formatted link with the title from the first clipboard stack entry and the URL from the second clipboard stack entry.

Nothing that you just said requires sniffing the clipboard contents without you initiating the transfer.
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