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

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Post by heavyset_go »

justaguyhere wrote: post #24
_bxg1 wrote: post #5

Guess I'm never copying and pasting anything sensitive on my phone ever again. Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag.

Not a fan of any of the big tech companies, but Apple needs to be applauded for this feature. Can't wait to see how many such behavior is exposed by iOS 14

iOS isn't free from this kind of snooping[1][2].

[1] "How popular apps can read your phone's clipboard without permission": https://www.mysk.blog/2020/03/10/popular-iphone-and-ipad-app...

[2] "Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/03/30/popular-ap...

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

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Post by leephillips »

inetknght wrote: post #35
leephillips wrote: post #31

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…

Can you explain this a bit for me here?

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

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Post by dllthomas »

rkagerer wrote: post #20
lostdog wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few years ago, linkedin purposefully changed their notification emails to have less information so you're forced to log in and read the notification on their platform. Linkedin is also widely known for when they scraped users contacts and then spammed them. Call it incompetence if you want, but there's a certain flavor of evil incompetence here.

Facebook (including Messenger) does it too. There might be a thin guise of "security" (i.e. email isn't a secure place to send your top-secret inbound message) but I'm inclined to suspect the main motivation is to drive people back to the platform and drive up their stickiness metrics. It's user-hostile.

For Facebook, the worst part is that it shows more in the gmail message preview than it shows when you click through to the message. There is no security explanation for that; it's clearly deliberate manipulation.

I'm sure in A/B tests it increased engagement...

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

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Post by OGWhales »

wackget wrote: post #27
justaguyhere wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a fan of any of the big tech companies, but Apple needs to be applauded for this feature. Can't wait to see how many such behavior is exposed by iOS 14

Or they need to be lambasted for not making it a permission like it should be.

I’d say “and” not “or”.

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

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Post by dmart »

leephillips wrote: post #31

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…

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.

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

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Post by maximente »

hypothesis: "technology" is largely data collection platforms with thin veneers on top (social networking, dating, food delivery, etc)

if you agree with that premise, then it's no surprise that every possible source of data that can be collected upon, will be collected upon.

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