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.
LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
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Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
#103Earlier 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.
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
#104It’s almost like letting the community maintain and control the software results in better user experience.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#105Every 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…
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#106Very 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.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#107how 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.
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
#108One 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.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#109Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#110Very 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.