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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

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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.

I hear you, but I do get some value from LinkedIn ( few prospects, interviews and so on ). In my little corner of the world, it has become defacto online resume. I stand by my initial reaction. I am not sure I am ready to drop it altogether.

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.

This would be a great feature for Firefox too! Doesn't look like there's interest though https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013165

I assume thats because sites dont have access and need a ctrl+v from user to see content

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

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Has anyone replicated the issue described by the Twitter user? It's probably important to verify these kinds of claims before they get upvoted. This looks and feels like disinformation.

if this is disinformation, MS lawyers are jumping with glee

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

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Has anyone replicated the issue described by the Twitter user? It's probably important to verify these kinds of claims before they get upvoted. This looks and feels like disinformation.

why? that is nonsense. they have a history of dark patterns and and are ignorant despite 2 data breaches.

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

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> Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag. Screw permissions flags. Clipboard-sniffing is never justified. Moving data out of the clipboard should only ever happen by direct user request via the OS interaction layer.

I would tend to agree, but a handful of people have a handful of reasons why they like it, and so removing it completely isn't as much of a no-brainer as adding a permission dialog is.

Sure, but the reasons are always so...contrived and frivolous...and none of them require accessing the clipboard automatically without the user invoking a system command. And the consequence of these poorly considered objections is what we have now.

It's like people have either been gaslit into thinking that there's no sane alternative to the current nightmare or are so shortsighted that they don't understand the horrors lurking around every corner that wouldn't be there if they stopped to consider the consequences of [checks notes] "google maps doesn't require you to to paste the address in before it starts to route" and "dash can drop a markdown formatted link". Because saving you one click is surely _so_ important that it's worth giving up everything for.

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

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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 alrea…

Apps wouldn't have to ask ahead for a text entry box.... you just have to only grant paste read access when a user explicitly chooses to paste by hitting a button.

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

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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 for the service you'd be excluded from their shitty ads and get more granular opt-out features than under a free-subscription model - but nope.

they have literally done nothing to deserve any trust from their users. People still use it because they tell themselves "I might need it one day when I look for a job". That's also wrong - if you're doing it right you build good social connections in the real world because most (if not the only things) you get from LinkedIn is scams.

The only upside where I find LinkedIn useful is for OSINT purposes. It's very easy to find all types of people there and get a rough picture how companies are run (what their employees are working on and what security problems that might imply) and build what the recruiting industry calls talent-maps (competiter analysis) which can be useful in infosec for threat & counter-intel. But it has 0 value for any legitimate purposes (that they advertise the service for).

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