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And people immediately jumped to the conclusion that TikTok is some evil company, controlled by the evil China government?
But yet, here, people are giving the benefit of the doubt, that LinkedIn just made some boneheaded decision without thinking things through.
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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.
Maybe I'm missing something but a clipboard permission seems to be pretty useless for most apps. When I want to login I have to paste my password, when I want to paste an email address into a Linkedin chat I need the clipboard. So everyone would just grant that permission anyway as it makes a lot of apps useless without and they'd just continue their harvesting after that. It would be a very small percentage to selec…
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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.
Maybe I'm missing something but a clipboard permission seems to be pretty useless for most apps. When I want to login I have to paste my password, when I want to paste an email address into a Linkedin chat I need the clipboard. So everyone would just grant that permission anyway as it makes a lot of apps useless without and they'd just continue their harvesting after that. It would be a very small percentage to selec…
Being able to read the clipboard without the user knowing would.
LinkedIn is actually copying the clipboard while that user types in a different app. https://twitter.com/DonCubed/status/1278757201310388225
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…
> they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app" I would agree with this one most of the time, but even their desktop web is horrible in Firefox. It wouldn't load the pages/header with buttons, wouldn't show new messages from time to time.
All the limitations I found on web pages that asks me to download the app are artificial. What is reddit doing that requires an app? What is facebook doing that requires an app? There is even less reasons now to use the YouTube app.
Why does a website or app even need access to the clipboard? I would maybe naively think that the OS could send the characters on the clipboard as if they were typed quickly, end of story.
You can copy-paste styled text, images, and other kinds of non-plaintext data, so it couldn't be implemented quite that simply.
Every time I paste something in iOS Mail it will inevitably get pasted as "rich" text where I have to put extra effort to clear that formatting (paste it into a plaintext-only input field, then copy from there).
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Perhaps not relevant to LinkedIn specifically, but in general people install these apps because they eventually get fed up with the purposefully crippled mobile website badgering them about it. Ever tried to use Yelp or Reddit's mobile websites? Impossible.
I'm a little surprised that iOS content blockers haven't seemed to address nagware.