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

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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.

I wouldn't say it's necessary, but it has been very valuable for me. I got my previous job through a linkedin posting and I regularly have recruiters reach out for interesting jobs on the platform.

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

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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.

It did have them from the beginning, and the set of supported permissions was quite substantial compared to what iOS offered. But you're right, iOS was first to have the ability to grant/revoke individual permissions at runtime

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

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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.

Which is the whole point behind giving a notification about it. Clipboard use is so core and fundamental, literally every app with any kind of entry box would need to ask ahead or you'd hit that so randomly all the time nobody would pay any attention to the warning.

The current feature being added allows this to happen, for awareness to be raised.

To be honest, I'm surprised we haven't heard of more snoopy apps already, but, I guess that will come when the feature's out of beta.

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

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Every day I read about another outrage being committed by another garbage app that I do not have and would never install on my phone. Why do people need a LinkedIn app? Even if you think that you need LinkedIn, can’t you access your please-spam-me account through your browser? Isn’t it obvious that every closed-source mystery program that you install increases your attack surface? You wouldn't click on an email attac…

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…

Thanks for the details. I agree that it’s obnoxious for sites to interfere with copy. But they still can’t read from the clipboard, which is the topic here. And your [8] seems to be about the user deciding to paste unsafe content — totally different issue, isn’t it?

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

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Very not cool. I am a medium LinkedIn user, but now it is going to be limited strictly to a PC browser, where I have some control. I just uninstalled it from my cell. I got caught in the siren song of convenience. Now how many other apps do this.

If someone steals your wallet, my advice is don’t let them drive you to the airport.

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

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post #96

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.

It's nice to have as a resume page. You don't need to use the mobile app or connect with anyone to use it like that.

As a hiring manager it makes looking at work history easier. I can click through to companies I don't recognize to learn more about them. Not having a LinkedIn profile wouldn't be a negative for me, it just makes my life easier.

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

#108

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.

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

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Very not cool. I am a medium LinkedIn user, but now it is going to be limited strictly to a PC browser, where I have some control. I just uninstalled it from my cell. I got caught in the siren song of convenience. Now how many other apps do this.

I uninstalled it from my phone years ago when I started getting cold calls, and was told directly they got my information from linkedin (where I never put in my phone number)
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