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

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Post by shostack »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #34
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.

> Programmers must forget that they're visible to users. GET parameters aren't usually visible to users; with the deemphasis of the URL bar, you'd have to have an incredibly short URL for that to even be a possbility. Right now I'm looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23717577&goto=item%3Fi ....... That's one visible parameter. There's PLENTY OF SPACE for firefox to show the rest of the URL, but it won't;…

As a marketer, there's valuable competitive info that is sometimes inadvertently included in these around targeting, testing, etc.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

kevsim wrote: post #2

My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.

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

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Post by rococode »

Fwirt wrote: post #65
thesimon wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Ever tried to use Yelp or Reddit's mobile websites? Impossible The other day I tried to view a subreddit in Safari. It was literally impossible, it was claimed to be only available in the app.

If you don't mind seeing the desktop interface, prepend "old" to the domain on any reddit page (i.e. change the domain to old.reddit.com) to bring up the legacy interface. Loads quick and works fine on mobile if you don't mind zooming. That said, it's ridiculous that this is necessary.

For a super legacy experience, try i.reddit.com

https://i.reddit.com/

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

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Post by Silhouette »

mtgp1000 wrote: post #87
hyko wrote: post #84

Illegal and immoral. How can anyone trust these people with personal data and access to your devices? We have allowed empires to be built on scummy business practices that are fundamentally user hostile. We are under no obligation to maintain them.

The worst is the implicit social shame when you tell people you would prefer to use something like signal or telegram to mitigate risk. This shit is on literally every platform, it's inescapable, and at this point necessary to participate in society.

I've actually been reassured by how many of my more thoughtful friends have appeared on Signal (and other less well-known but more trustworthy tools) recently. Sure, lots of people are just using something like Zoom or one of the Facebook-owned privacy invaders, but I get the feeling that with so many more people relying on these tools for both personal and professional reasons because of the virus situation, awareness of the issues is at least in moving-the-needle territory now. It's not much, but it's still progress in the right direction.

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

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Post by jmann99999 »

Microsoft Teams does this in the chat box for every keystroke. It says "Pasting from device" on each press. I filed a RADAR with Apple before the TikTok report but now I feel stupid.

Apple is doing the right thing. These other companies appear to have the issue.

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

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Post by Moto7451 »

_jal wrote: post #147
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…

Ugh, I won't use their phone app, they're way too slimy to live there. They conveniently forget your mail settings periodically, too, forcing you to opt-out of various garbage again, or to just trash all the mail. They're at least as scummy as FB, if not worse. My (related) new rule: if your site demands a phone number for an account, I will not create an account on your site.

I’m not a fan of giving phone numbers out either. When I have to I give one to sites I hold suspect I use a number from the safe fictitious range allowed for use on TV and in movies. It’s like example.org but for phone numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)

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

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Post by crazygringo »

I've used plenty of software before that offers to do something based on clipboard contents, often when there isn't even anywhere to paste.

E.g. a phone dialer app that asks if you want to dial the number in the clipboard when you start it, an image editor that asks if I want to create a new image size the dimensions of the clipboard, a torrenting program that when I choose to import a torrent automatically grabs it from the clipboard before I even get the choice to pick another option (though I still can).

I would be very surprised if this wasn't originally part of something like that, and maybe the feature was removed but the detection function wasn't.

Because if we put down our pitchforks for a second, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, which also owns a major browser and the world's most popular operating system. Microsoft sure as hell doesn't need to sniff your clipboard in LinkedIn, if it wanted to do something for nefarious purposes.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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