Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev...
by just-ok on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:47AM
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Ideally, we’d be able to differentiate between local parsing (which I’d deem acceptable) and a remote request, but that quickly enters a gray area. How long after parsing do we validate a request? Is it even viable for a compiler to track the status of a property beyond assignment? And for how long? etc.
Yes? That's the definition of a deep link? The way you get notified is you open their app...
This is a special case when you don't already have the app installed, but being able to read the clipboard without warning is it's own thing, but this specific deep link use-case is extremely benign...