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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by candiodari on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:42AM (#13461241)
But, that's done on websites as well, and frankly it's annoying. Giving apps the ability to put stuff into the clipboard and extract it out again has been made too hard (and one of the few remaining applications of flash).

I'd even settle for the ability to put stuff in the clipboard programmatically ...

This is a case of overly broad security imho.

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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by ploggingdev on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:37AM (#13461471)
> But, that's done on websites as well

Can websites running in background tabs access the clipboard contents on the Desktop?

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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by emodendroket on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:28AM (#13461707)
In my experience browsers won't let you see the clipboard at all unless the user initiates a paste event.
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Re:Android permissions and hypocrisy by btown on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:48AM (#13461516)
The spec says no, but there's no guarantee that a browser implementation doesn't "through an implementation-dependent mechanism" give this access by default. https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#event-handlers-that-ar...
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