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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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